dynamically set textboxes

[Ben Dover - Mental Patient 0057]

i want to be able to dynamically set different text boxes depending on
the button pressed.


i was hoping obj() can "become" object "aaa" or "bbb", but it's not
working.

function clearBox(inputo bject) {
var obj=(inputobjec t);
document.main.o jb().value="hel lo";
document.main.a aa.focus();
}


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<form name="main">
<input type="text" value="aaa" name="boxaaa">
<input type="text" value="bbb" name="boxbbb">
<input type="button" value="clickme" onclick="clearB ox(aaa)">
<input type="button" value="clickme" onclick="clearB ox(bbb)">
</form>

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: dynamically set textboxes

Ben Dover - Mental Patient 0057 <Ben_Dover@psyc hiatric-center.Bellevue-Hospital.com> writes:
[color=blue]
> i want to be able to dynamically set different text boxes depending on
> the button pressed.[/color]
[color=blue]
> i was hoping obj() can "become" object "aaa" or "bbb", but it's not
> working.
>
> function clearBox(inputo bject) {
> var obj=(inputobjec t);
> document.main.o jb().value="hel lo";[/color]

From the FAQ <URL:http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ4_39>

document.forms['main'].elements[inputobject].value="hello";

(I prefer to always use the forms and elements collections)

This also requires that the remaining code is correct :
[color=blue]
> <input type="text" value="aaa" name="boxaaa">
> <input type="text" value="bbb" name="boxbbb">
> <input type="button" value="clickme" onclick="clearB ox(aaa)">[/color]
onclick="clearB ox('aaa')"
You want to send a string, not the value of the possibly non-existing
global variable called "aaa".
[color=blue]
> <input type="button" value="clickme" onclick="clearB ox(bbb)">[/color]

Ditto here.

/L
--
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen - lrn@hotpop.com
Art D'HTML: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/randomArtSplit. html>
'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'

[Ben Dover - Mental Patient 0057]

Re: dynamically set textboxes

just want to share with everyone what I put together:
in the head:

function clearBox(inputo bject) {
var obj=(inputobjec t);
document.main[inputobject].value="";
document.main[inputobject].focus();
}


in the body:
<form name="main" >
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" VALUE="hellowor ld" NAME="login">
<a href="#" onclick="clearB ox('login');">c lear login</a>

<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" VALUE="hellowor ld" NAME="password" >
<a href="#" onclick="clearB ox('password'); ">clear password</a>

etc...
</form>


have fun folks!

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Ben Dover - Mental Patient 0057 <Ben_Dover@psyc hiatric-center.Bellevue-Hospital.com> writes:
>[color=green]
> > i want to be able to dynamically set different text boxes depending on
> > the button pressed.[/color]
>[color=green]
> > i was hoping obj() can "become" object "aaa" or "bbb", but it's not
> > working.
> >
> > function clearBox(inputo bject) {
> > var obj=(inputobjec t);
> > document.main.o jb().value="hel lo";[/color]
>
> From the FAQ <URL:http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ4_39>
>
> document.forms['main'].elements[inputobject].value="hello";
>
> (I prefer to always use the forms and elements collections)
>
> This also requires that the remaining code is correct :
>[color=green]
> > <input type="text" value="aaa" name="boxaaa">
> > <input type="text" value="bbb" name="boxbbb">
> > <input type="button" value="clickme" onclick="clearB ox(aaa)">[/color]
> onclick="clearB ox('aaa')"
> You want to send a string, not the value of the possibly non-existing
> global variable called "aaa".
>[color=green]
> > <input type="button" value="clickme" onclick="clearB ox(bbb)">[/color]
>
> Ditto here.
>
> /L
> --
> Lasse Reichstein Nielsen - lrn@hotpop.com
> Art D'HTML: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/randomArtSplit. html>
> 'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'[/color]