Display Preview from user input?

[C-Yeo]

Expertise required~

Does anyone know how to display input by user in a html form in the same page without clicking a button?

<form method=”POST”>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name "size="60" maxlength="50" value="">
</form>

when user input their name in the form, I need to display the "value" in a thanks you message below the form. Explaination will be a bonus, cos i'm still new other programming languages. :p

any help would be very much appreciated~~ Thanks~ :D

[Kravvitz]

You could do it with JavaScript, but since not all Internet browsers use a browser that has support for it enabled, I suggest you just wait for the user to submit the form and use a server-side language to output the message.

[C-Yeo]

Kravvitz, thanks for your reply.

so the input from my form will be "post" to a database (MySQL), and a "Preview" submit button to link to a seperate window using PHP to retrive data and to display. Does this sounds correct?

[Kravvitz]

No. Just submit the form and in whatever page is set as the action of the form show the thank you message.

[C-Yeo]

i see. thanks for your advise. :D