Need help prefilling input field usin JS

**McKirahan** · Jul 23 '05, 04:08 PM

Re: Need help prefilling input field usin JS

"Don" <no@adr.com> wrote in message
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> I thought I had this figured out, and have been able to do it in PHP on[/color]
the server, but, how do I[color=blue]
> prefill an input field with a cookie value using JavaScript in a[/color]
client-side page?[color=blue]
>
> Thanks,
> Don[/color]

Will this help? Watch for word-wrap.

<html>
<head>
<title>coookie. htm</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function coookie() {
document.getEle mentById("data" ).value = document.cookie ;
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="coookie ()">
<form>
<input type="text" name="data" size="100">
</form>
</body>
</html>

**Don** · Jul 23 '05, 04:08 PM

Re: Need help prefilling input field usin JS

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:37:40 GMT, "McKirahan" <News@McKirahan .com> wrote:
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>"Don" <no@adr.com> wrote in message
>news:tutds05r5 s4n5ahk515gha0f bq65ntn01c@4ax. com...[color=green]
>> I thought I had this figured out, and have been able to do it in PHP on[/color]
>the server, but, how do I[color=green]
>> prefill an input field with a cookie value using JavaScript in a[/color]
>client-side page?[color=green]
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Don[/color]
>
>Will this help? Watch for word-wrap.
>
><html>
><head>
><title>coookie .htm</title>
><script type="text/javascript">
>function coookie() {
> document.getEle mentById("data" ).value = document.cookie ;
>}
></script>
></head>
><body onload="coookie ()">
><form>
><input type="text" name="data" size="100">
></form>
></body>
></html>
>[/color]
Thanks McKirahan. I'll give it a try. It sure is nice knowing you're out there to help out.
Thanks much, and have a Happy Holiday Season.
Don

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**Don** · Jul 23 '05, 04:09 PM

Re: Need help prefilling input field usin JS

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:37:40 GMT, "McKirahan" <News@McKirahan .com> wrote:
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>"Don" <no@adr.com> wrote in message
>news:tutds05r5 s4n5ahk515gha0f bq65ntn01c@4ax. com...[color=green]
>> I thought I had this figured out, and have been able to do it in PHP on[/color]
>the server, but, how do I[color=green]
>> prefill an input field with a cookie value using JavaScript in a[/color]
>client-side page?[color=green]
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Don[/color]
>
>Will this help? Watch for word-wrap.
>
><html>
><head>
><title>coookie .htm</title>
><script type="text/javascript">
>function coookie() {
> document.getEle mentById("data" ).value = document.cookie ;
>}
></script>
></head>
><body onload="coookie ()">
><form>
><input type="text" name="data" size="100">
></form>
></body>
></html>
>[/color]
McKirahan,

I tried your suggestion, and it works just great with IE. But can't seem to get any prefill with
Netscape. Doesn't Netscape allow prefills?

Thanks,
Don

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**McKirahan** · Jul 23 '05, 04:09 PM

Re: Need help prefilling input field usin JS

"Don" <no@adr.com> wrote in message
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[snip]
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> McKirahan,
>
> I tried your suggestion, and it works just great with IE. But can't seem[/color]
to get any prefill with[color=blue]
> Netscape. Doesn't Netscape allow prefills?
>
> Thanks,
> Don[/color]

Change
document.getEle mentById("data" ).value = what;
to
document.forms[0].data.value = what;

What version of NS are you running?

I don't know when getElementById( ) was supported.

**McKirahan** · Jul 23 '05, 04:09 PM

Re: Need help prefilling input field usin JS

"McKirahan" <News@McKirahan .com> wrote in message
news:8wTxd.2331 49$V41.22654@at tbi_s52...[color=blue]
> "Don" <no@adr.com> wrote in message
> news:gfofs0t87h 324rmjmr6ki7pur s4m0bg3u0@4ax.c om...
>
> [snip]
>[color=green]
> > McKirahan,
> >
> > I tried your suggestion, and it works just great with IE. But can't[/color][/color]
seem[color=blue]
> to get any prefill with[color=green]
> > Netscape. Doesn't Netscape allow prefills?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Don[/color]
>
> Change
> document.getEle mentById("data" ).value = what;
> to
> document.forms[0].data.value = what;
>
> What version of NS are you running?
>
> I don't know when getElementById( ) was supported.
>
>[/color]

I meant, change
document.getEle mentById("data" ).value = document.cookie ;
to
document.forms[0].data.value = document.cookie ;

**Michael Winter** · Jul 23 '05, 04:09 PM

Re: Need help prefilling input field usin JS

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:09:56 GMT, McKirahan <News@McKirahan .com> wrote:

[snip]

[To Don:][color=blue]
> What version of NS are you running?[/color]

It wouldn't matter.

As I've said to you a couple of times in the past, document.getEle mentById
is *NOT* - I repeat, *NOT* - allowed to return elements that have a
matching name. IE, if you haven't noticed by now, is not a browser that
should be used for primary testing of Web documents. It's too lenient - a
very bad thing in my opinion.

If you need to retrieve elements document-wide based on their names, use
the document.getEle mentsByName method. Alternatively, use the forms and
elements collection, which I think is always preferable when accessing a
form control within a form.

[snip]

Mike

--
Michael Winter
Replace ".invalid" with ".uk" to reply by e-mail.

**Don** · Jul 23 '05, 04:09 PM

Re: Need help prefilling input field usin JS

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:59:20 GMT, "McKirahan" <News@McKirahan .com> wrote:
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>"McKirahan" <News@McKirahan .com> wrote in message
>news:8wTxd.233 149$V41.22654@a ttbi_s52...[color=green]
>> "Don" <no@adr.com> wrote in message
>> news:gfofs0t87h 324rmjmr6ki7pur s4m0bg3u0@4ax.c om...
>>
>> [snip]
>>[color=darkred]
>> > McKirahan,
>> >
>> > I tried your suggestion, and it works just great with IE. But can't[/color][/color]
>seem[color=green]
>> to get any prefill with[color=darkred]
>> > Netscape. Doesn't Netscape allow prefills?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Don[/color]
>>
>> Change
>> document.getEle mentById("data" ).value = what;
>> to
>> document.forms[0].data.value = what;
>>
>> What version of NS are you running?
>>
>> I don't know when getElementById( ) was supported.
>>
>>[/color]
>
>I meant, change
> document.getEle mentById("data" ).value = document.cookie ;
>to
> document.forms[0].data.value = document.cookie ;
>[/color]
Great! That did it. Thanks much McKirahan.
Don

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**Don** · Jul 23 '05, 04:09 PM

Re: Need help prefilling input field usin JS

BTW, I'm running Netscape 7.2
Don

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**McKirahan** · Jul 23 '05, 04:09 PM

Re: Need help prefilling input field usin JS

"Michael Winter" <M.Winter@bluey onder.co.invali d> wrote in message
news:opsjcz14iy x13kvk@atlantis ...[color=blue]
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:09:56 GMT, McKirahan <News@McKirahan .com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> [To Don:][color=green]
> > What version of NS are you running?[/color]
>
> It wouldn't matter.
>
> As I've said to you a couple of times in the past, document.getEle mentById
> is *NOT* - I repeat, *NOT* - allowed to return elements that have a
> matching name. IE, if you haven't noticed by now, is not a browser that
> should be used for primary testing of Web documents. It's too lenient - a
> very bad thing in my opinion.
>
> If you need to retrieve elements document-wide based on their names, use
> the document.getEle mentsByName method. Alternatively, use the forms and
> elements collection, which I think is always preferable when accessing a
> form control within a form.
>
> [snip]
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael Winter
> Replace ".invalid" with ".uk" to reply by e-mail.[/color]

Mike,

The rules keep changing and it's hard to keep up.

Can you point me to some good documentation regarding
document.getEle mentsById
and
document.getEle mentsByName
usage? Thanks.

**Michael Winter** · Jul 23 '05, 04:10 PM

Re: Need help prefilling input field usin JS

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:25:48 GMT, McKirahan <News@McKirahan .com> wrote:

[snip]
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> Can you point me to some good documentation[/color]

I find that the W3C DOM specifications
<URL:http://www.w3.org/DOM/DOMTR.html#DOML 2> are fine. It just takes a
little while to get used to how the information is presented. Navigation,
especially within the PDFs, can be a pain, though. Alternatively, the
(incomplete) documentation provided by Mozilla
<URL:http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref> also gives an accurate
account of the specification and is slightly more readable.

I'm afraid that as I've never needed to read other sources, I can't give
you any. There's always Google.

The only other suggestion is to use another browser if you can. Both
Mozilla (Suite and Firefox) and Opera are free (and quite small), and
conform to the various specifications much better than IE probably ever
will[1].
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> regarding
> document.getEle mentsById[/color]

<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-getElBId>
<URL:http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_doc_ref48.h tml#1025944>
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> and
> document.getEle mentsByName[/color]

<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-71555259>
<URL:http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_doc_ref49.h tml#1025973>

[snip]

Mike

[1] After all, now that it's introduced erroneous behaviour that I have no
doubt authors have used (and will continue to), Microsoft will have to
supporting it in future versions.

--
Michael Winter
Replace ".invalid" with ".uk" to reply by e-mail.

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