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Javascript... simple question how to keep the form on the page after submitting

Answer 1

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Don't use document.write - if you use it after the page loads, you're essentially creating a new document. You can either use the javascript DOM functions or just a

<div id="results"></div>


<script> document.getElementById('results').innerHTML = "Your text here"; </script>

Sam Dufel 2010-10-22 08:40:40

cheers mate. thank you

Matt Ayres 2010-10-22 08:42:38

Might want to change the comma to a fullstop before innerHTML!

Alex 2010-10-22 08:44:16

document.getElementById('results'),innerHTML should be document.getElementById('results').innerHTML (with period)

pferdefleisch 2010-10-22 08:45:12

Ah yes... good catch, typo there.

Sam Dufel 2010-10-22 08:47:05

haha wondered why it wasnt working! thanks all

Matt Ayres 2010-10-22 08:48:30

Answer 2

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document.write() is to blame. You should normally avoid it at all costs in favour of DOM manipulation and AJAX techniques. See here and here and particularly here and there's a metric ton of coverage on this subject around the web.

annakata 2010-10-22 08:41:04

thanks ill check those out

Matt Ayres 2010-10-22 08:42:05

Answer 3

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Try to write in a div instead of the document, the form will still be visible

<input TYPE="button" NAME="button" Value="Go!" onClick="testResults(this.form)">
<div id="myResult/>

and in the javascript:

document.getElementById('myResult').innerHTML = 'your text here'

oyo 2010-10-22 08:47:22

Answer 4

+1 A:

It looks like you're using an example from 1995 to write your HTML... You should just read over some more modern html/javascript tutorials. Just a few good things to clean up:

The language="javascript" attribute is depricated. You only need to specify <script type="text/javascript">
It's better to use lowercase in your element declarations (ie:  instead of )
For every element that you open, you need to close. So for each , you need a . If there is no closing tag, ie, it is self-closing, as with the   tag, you should write it:  , just like you did in the document.write code. This makes your code truly XHTML compliant as you have specified in your doctype.
As already stated, no reason to pass in the form to the javascript function. And just access the elements by id and their values via innerHTML.

Bal 2010-10-22 08:54:16

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