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May 09.2012

I wanted to get text from a textbox to display on the same screen. This is the code i have used but it doesn’t seem to work. The text prints to the screen but the textbox disappears and I cant enter anything else.
Any help?

<html>
<script language=’JavaScript’>

function getwords()
{
textbox = document.getElementById(‘words’);
if (textbox.value != “”)
document.write(“You entered: ” + textbox.value)
else
alert(“No word has been entered!”)
}

</script>
<input type=”text” id=”words” />
<input type=”button” onclick=”getwords()” value=”Enter” />

</body>
</html>

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@LutinFouMay 10.2012 — Hi, try usng the innerHTML property

first create your output div in the body (i.e. <div id="output"> [I] Leave blank here[/I] </div>

Then in your function get create a variable that accesses the output div (i.e. var myOutput=document.getElementById('output').

Then instead of using the document.write method, just use myOutput.innerHTML="You entered: " + textbox.value;

in a nutshell:

<html>

<script language='JavaScript'>


function getwords(){

myOutput=document.getElementById('output');

textbox = document.getElementById('words');

if (textbox.value != "")

myOutput.innerHTML="You entered: " + textbox.value;

else

alert("No word has been entered!")

}

</script>

<input type="text" id="words" />

<input type="button" onclick="getwords()" value="Enter" />

<div id="output">

</div>

</body>

</html>
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