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Object Name Confusion – Script No work.

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Dec 26.2005

I can’t seem to find the answer in my JavaScript books other than I need to specify the object name to get the output… but I don’t know:

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    what the default name is


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    how to specify the object name


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    how to determine what the current object name is using tools


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    So, if someone could enlighten me, that would be a great post-christmas gift.

    Here is my very simple script:

    — begin —
    [COLOR=Blue]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”>
    <html>
    <head>
    <title> My Attitude</title>
    </head>
    <script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript1.2″><!–
    function attitudeReturn( ) {

    alert( ‘I am trying… ‘ );
    window.myAttitude.value= ‘Steve is happy.’;

    }
    //–></script
    <body>
    <form method=”post” action=”” name=”document”>
    <input type=”text” name=”myAttitude” onclick=”return false;” onmouseup=”attitudeReturn();return false;” >
    </form>
    </body>
    </html>[/COLOR]
    — end —

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    @vwphillipsDec 26.2005 — [CODE]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
    <html>
    <head>
    <title> My Attitude</title>
    </head>
    <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript1.2"><!--
    function attitudeReturn(obj) {

    alert( 'I am trying... '+obj.name );
    }
    //-->
    </script
    <body>
    <form method="post" action="" name="document">
    <input type="text" name="myAttitude" onclick="return false;" onmouseup="attitudeReturn(this);return false;" >
    </form>
    </body>
    </html>[/CODE]
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    @dacturaauthorDec 26.2005 — This does give me the object name. Thanks! However, the second part of the function is to copy the string [COLOR=Blue]'Steve is happy.'[/COLOR] to the text box.

    The alert works okay... and I'm sorta comforted that I know the object name, but setting the value of that object is what I really want to do. (Maybe I'm not asking the right question... I don't know.)

    Here's what the updated code (that doesn't quite work) looks like now.

    [COLOR=Blue]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

    <html>

    <head>

    <title> My Attitude</title>

    </head>

    <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript1.2"><!--



    function attitudeReturn(obj ) {

    alert( 'I am trying... '+obj.name );

    obj.name.value= 'Steve is happy.';

    }

    //--></script>

    <body>

    <form method="post" action="" name="document">

    <input type="text" name="myAttitude" onclick="return false;" onmouseup="attitudeReturn(this);return false;" >

    </form>

    </body>

    </html>[/COLOR]

    What the form is suppose to do is 1. present the alert (this works) 2. after typing something into the field, replace it with 'Steve is happy." (does not work.)

    I think it's because I don't know how to specify the object name correctly.
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    @vwphillipsDec 26.2005 — obj.value='whatever tou want';
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    @dacturaauthorDec 27.2005 — Thanks! I think I make things too hard.
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