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[Willy]

Example
form>
<input name=userInput type=text value="something">
</form>
Could value'something' ibe put in a variable via avascript?
Sorry for previous message in dutch

Willy

 

[Toby Inkster]

<input name=userInput type=text value="something">
Could value'something' ibe put in a variable via avascript?

Yes.

<form name=theForm>
<input name=userInput type=text value="">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
var myInput = document.forms["theForm"].elements["userInput"];
myInput.value = "something";
</script>

Note: I've given the form a name here. You don't need to -- you could
refer to it by number (the first form on the page is 'document.forms[0]',
the next one is 'document.forms[1]', etc), but numbers can accidentally
change when you rearrange your page next month.

 

[Toby Inkster]

<input name=userInput type=text value="something">
Could value'something' ibe put in a variable via avascript?

<form name=theForm>
<input name=userInput type=text value="">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
var myInput = document.forms["theForm"].elements["userInput"];
myInput.value = "something";
</script>

Sorry -- I think I misread your question. My example above uses Javascript
to put something into a form field. It seems you want to read it *out*.

Here you have two options, depending on what you want to read. Say you
have '<input value="something">' but the visitor then types into the form
field 'something else'. Do you want to retrieve the original value
'something', or the new value 'something else'?

If you want to retrieve 'something else' (which most people would probably
want), then:

<form name=theForm>
<input name=userInput type=text value="something">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
var myInput = document.forms["theForm"].elements["userInput"];
var WhatIWant = myInput.value;
// now the variable 'WhatIWant' has what you want.
</script>

If you want to retrieve the original value ('something') then you need
'myInput.defaultValue' instead of 'myInput.value'.

 

[Willy]

<input name=userInput type=text value="something">
Could value'something' ibe put in a variable via avascript?

<form name=theForm>
<input name=userInput type=text value="">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
var myInput = document.forms["theForm"].elements["userInput"];
myInput.value = "something";
</script>

Sorry -- I think I misread your question. My example above uses Javascript
to put something into a form field. It seems you want to read it *out*.

Here you have two options, depending on what you want to read. Say you
have '<input value="something">' but the visitor then types into the form
field 'something else'. Do you want to retrieve the original value
'something', or the new value 'something else'?

If you want to retrieve 'something else' (which most people would probably
want), then:

<form name=theForm>
<input name=userInput type=text value="something">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
var myInput = document.forms["theForm"].elements["userInput"];
var WhatIWant = myInput.value;
// now the variable 'WhatIWant' has what you want.
</script>

If you want to retrieve the original value ('something') then you need
'myInput.defaultValue' instead of 'myInput.value'.

It is as you guessed the value 'something else' that I wanted to retrieve.
My regards and thank you for your help
Willy

 

[Stan McCann]

Example
form>
<input name=userInput type=text value="something">
</form>
Could value'something' ibe put in a variable via avascript?
Sorry for previous message in dutch

Yes, or server side. I use PHP and do the folloeing quite regularly.
Note the quotes and required block element.

<form id="form_id">
<legend>Something</legend><fieldset id="something">
<input name="userInput" type="text"
value="<?php echo $variable ?>">
</fieldset>
</form>

 

[Stan McCann]

Sorry -- I think I misread your question. My example above uses
Javascript to put something into a form field. It seems you want to
read it *out*.

If you did, so did I.