Re: after createElement('input'), get a value

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On Wednesday 06 August 2003 11:14 pm, yj wrote:
wi> I am using DOM in HTML.
> Like the following, I make a new Input form in <span> position.
> And if a user enter a value and press a button, I like to show the value.
> Making the new input works.
> But, getting a value from it does not work.
> I cannot find any example to get a value from a input form which is newly
> made in the same page. Someone tell me what's wrong with it?
>
> <script language="javascript>
> function getValue()
> {
>    var value = document.form1.newInput.value;
>    alert("your value is "+value);
> }

try document.form1.newInput.nodeValue();

>
> function addForm()
> {
> ...
>  var newForm = document.createElement('input');
>  newForm.setAttribute('name','newInput');
>  newForm.setAttribute('type','text');
>  newForm.setAttribute('size','20');
>
> ...
> }

Okay, you created the element "input" that may be accessed using the variable 
newForm, but you didn't add it to the document yet.

try: document.form1.appendChild(newForm);

> <body>
> ....
> <form name="form1" ..>
> <span id="here"></span>
> <type="button" onClick="getValue();" ..>

I hope this helps,
Christian Parpart.

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Received on Wednesday, 6 August 2003 20:36:57 UTC