form field question
how can you change an input field within the form so that the entered text is altered by a given string before the user hits submit?
for example, if a user enters "ABC" into the input field, i want to know how the field "trial" be changed so that "DEF" is added to the end (trail=ABCDEF) before the user presses submit button within the form.
Mark Hensler posted this at 06:08 — 11th January 2001.
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more info...
will you always append with the same string?
or is there more logic behind it?.....
if (trial=="this") { trial = "this and that" }
if (trial=="jack") { trial = "jack and jill" }
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elisa posted this at 07:23 — 11th January 2001.
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i wanna use the same string, no matter what the user enters.
i tried a javascript code, but it didn't seem to reassign the value of "trial."
<script type="text/javascript"></script>
STEV0 posted this at 15:52 — 16th January 2001.
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you'd access the field with
document.forms[0].trial.value'so if you want to append to the string when submit is pressed try:
<script>
function poo() {
document.forms[0].trial.value += 'DEF';
}
</script>
<FORM onSubmit="poo()">
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hope this helps
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