adding text to a textfield dynamically?
Simply this is what I would like to accomplish. I want a text area, and when you click on a link, or button, it pastes text in the textarea, where the cursor is. Is this at all possible in perl, html, or do I have to use some javascript, dhtml?
Like if the user pressed the button ten times, it would paste the text in that textarea 10x.
Thanx for your help.
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Vorm posted this at 20:37 — 23rd August 2000.
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Well, you could print all the text to a file, and refer the file into the textarea.
#!/usr/bin/perl
open(HEH, ">>/path/to/file.txt");
print HEH "$texttogointextarea";
close(HEH);
Then have PERL file like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
open(HEH, ">>/path/to/file.txt");
@text=;
close(HEH);
print <
heh
Hope that works.
Mark Hensler posted this at 20:41 — 23rd August 2000.
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how will this be used?
if you use perl, it will be server side and slower
if you use javascript it'a be client side (and for me, harder to write)
Mark Hensler posted this at 20:46 — 23rd August 2000.
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the syntax for is:
<textarea>Text goes here
</textarea>
Ken Elliott posted this at 13:18 — 24th August 2000.
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Max that wasn't the question I was asking. I know how to put text into a text area. But I want it to be empty upon load. Let them type in schtuff and then they can click a link, and it would paste some text in the textarea at the spot of the cursor.
I am going to post this question in the Javascript forum as well.
VulKen
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Mark Hensler posted this at 23:39 — 24th August 2000.
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I know what you mean... Vorm had it wrong in his code.
Ken Elliott posted this at 15:45 — 25th August 2000.
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Woohoo! I figured it out, thanks to um..I forget who it was that gave me the info in the JavaScript Help Forum!
Simply the basis of it is
IT WORKS GREAT!
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Mark Hensler posted this at 18:29 — 25th August 2000.
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you forgot the closing " again
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