Need a Javascript that...

Rob Pengelly posted this at 05:43 — 23rd November 1999.

Joined: Jul 1999

Hi.

I am looking for a javascript that when a button is clicked, it will show an input box that asks for the name of a site, and than another input box that asks for the URL to that site.

After the two var's are entered, it created an html tag
<a href="$site">$name</a> and places it into a textarea.

If anyone can suggest where to look for a script similiar to this, or where to find info to create a script like this, that would be great thanks.

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Rob Pengelly posted this at 20:43 — 24th November 1999.

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Maybe I did not give enough info?

On the click of an input button I need somthing like

code:

site=window.prompt("What is the name of the site?");
url=window.prompt("What is the URL to the site?","http://www.");
link="<a href="$url">$site</a>;
[/code]

I don't think that code is correct , but something similiar to it.

Than I need $link added at a <textarea>.

Any ideas?
Thanks



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Anonymous posted this at 02:01 — 25th November 1999.

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I don't know what you want with the textarea - not really relevant.

Try

site = window.prompt("What is the name of the site?");
url = window.prompt("What is the URL to the site?","http://www.");

document.write('<a href="' + url + '">' + site + '</a>');

You could always write this to a layer so that you can keep the rest of your page the same.

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Rob Pengelly posted this at 02:22 — 25th November 1999.

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Thank you very much for the help.

So I would have
site = window.prompt("What is the name of the site?");
url = window.prompt("What is the URL to the site?","http://www.");

link="<a href="' + url + '">' + site + '</a>')";

What I wanted with the text area is that the variable link will be added to the textarea so the textarea will contain all of the links entered.

If you don't understand, I will try and explain again.

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http://www.thehungersite.com - http://www.therainforestsite.com
http://www.ratemymullet.com - Beauty is only mullet deep.

John Pollock posted this at 04:12 — 29th November 1999.

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I don't think a link can be placed in a textarea, just text (except maybe IE4 or 5?)

The code below should gather urls and place them in the textarea:

<HEAD>
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
<!--
function get_url(a_url)
{
url = window.prompt("What is the URL to the site?","http://www.");

link= a_url+"\n"+url;

document.form1.the_urls.value=link;
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM name="form1">
<TEXTAREA name="the_urls"></TEXTAREA>
<INPUT TYPE="button" onClick="get_url(document.form1.the_urls.value)">
</FORM>
</BODY>

I'm tired though, let me know if it helps any.

[This message has been edited by John Pollock (edited 28 November 1999).]

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Rob Pengelly posted this at 00:18 — 7th December 1999.

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Thanks for the help !

John, the code you gave me was great, almost perfect , except I want the actual HTML code (<a href="url>name</a> ) to be placed in the text area.

So I have
url = window.prompt("What is the URL to the site?","http://");
name = window.prompt("What is the name of the site?","");

but instead of just adding the link to the textarea, how can I add the full HTML code for the URL/Site name to the textarea?
link=<a href="' + url + '">' + site + '</a>;

or somthing like that?

Thanks for the help!

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Rob Pengelly posted this at 00:55 — 7th December 1999.

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Never mind,

Patrick D helped me with it.

Thanks to everyone for the help.

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