How do I display textbox data from one html page in another one.

[BobQuinn]

I have a problem that seems like it should be easy, yet I don't quite have the answer. I have an html page with a number of textboxes for input. When the user clicks a button, a javascript routine performs calculations and displays the output. This works fine. I'm using a button to create a "printer friendly" version of the output in a new html page. I'm trying to access the calculated values and put them in textboxes on the new form without luck.

Say Page1.htm is displaying the output with a button for the printer friendly page (Page2.htm). In my javascript for Page2.htm I have in initPage2 function that is called from the onload of Page2. I'm using one javascript file for both Page1.htm and Page2.htm (Page.js). My code looks something like this:

function initPage2() {
  document.Page2.txtTest2.value=document.getElementsByName('txtTest1').value;  // Doesn't work, but
    document.Page2.txtTest2.value="99";  // Works fine
}

What's wrong with the getElementsByNa me?
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Bob

[gits]

document.getEle mentsByName() returns a nodelist ... so probably it should look like:

document.getElementsByName('txtTest1')[0].value

you need to refer to a specific node.

kind regards

[BobQuinn]

I tried adding the [0] but I get the yellow triange with the exclamation mark.
If I have two html pages and each one references to the same js page, does the second page that loads wipe out variables created from the first page?

[gits]

are you using frames? or what do you mean with 2 pages? or are they loaded sequentially? the second page cannot access variables from the first page then ... they are lost onload of a new page ... you would need to pass the values to the second page ...

[BobQuinn]

OK... I think I found a method that works. If I write the textbox data to a session cookie, then read the cookie in the new page I have my data.

[gits]

that is one option ... you could even pass it through the url as a querystring and read it from there ...

kind regards