Script Not Working in FF OR Opera

**Joseph Witchard** · 11-27-2008 04:17 PM

JavaScript:

Code:

function goBold()
      {
      
        var goBoldButton = prompt("Please enter the text that is to be bold", "");
        
        var boldText = "" + goBoldButton + "";
        
        document.newsForm.newsBody.value += boldText;
        
      }
      
      function goItalic()
      {
      
        var goItalicButton = prompt("Please enter the text that is to be italic", "");
        
        var italicText = "" + goItalicButton + "";
        
        document.newsForm.newsBody.value += italicText;
        
      }
      
      function errorCheck()
      {
      
        var body = document.newsForm.newsBody.value;
        var title = document.newsForm.newsTitle.value;
        
        // check to see that the information is valid
        
        if (body == "" || body == "NULL")
        {
        
          alert("Please enter some news!");
          return false;
          
        }
        
        else if (title == "" || title == "NULL")
        {
        
          alert("Please enter a news title!");
          return false;
          
        }
        
        else
        {
        
          return true;
          
        }

HTML Form:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

  <head>
  
    <title>Rebirth Administration News Center</title>
    
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">
    
    <link href="/css/general2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
    
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/javascripts/aaNews.js"></script>
      
    </head>
    
    <body>
    
      <div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
      
        <h2>News Form</h2>
        
        <form id="newsForm" name="newsForm" method="post" action="https://uhrebirth.com/staff/lets_go.php" onSubmit="return errorCheck();">
        
        <label for="newsTitle">Title:</label> <input type="text" id="newsTitle" name="newsTitle" size="30">
        
        <br> <br>
        
        <label for="newsType">Category:</label> <select id="newsType" name="newsType">
   
<!-- SERVER SIDE CODE GOES HERE -->
        
        </select>
        
        <br> <br>
        
        <label for="newsBody">Body:</label> <br> <textarea id="newsBody" name="newsBody" style="width: 500px; height: 200px; overflow: auto;"></textarea>
        
        <br> <br>
        
        <input type="button" value="BOLD" onClick="goBold();"> <input type="button" value="ITALIC" onClick="goItalic();">
        
        <br> <br>
        
        <input type="submit" id="submit" name="submit" value="Submit News"> <input type="reset" value="Reset">
        
        </form>
        
      </div>
      
    </body>
    
  </html>

I swear JavaScript hates me. Can someone explain to me why this isn't working? Nothing happens when I click the BOLD or ITALIC buttons, and it doesn't work right when I submit the form with the wrong data, either

P.S. The reason it's showing empty quotes in the bold and italic functions is because BBCode goes there.

**voidvector** · 11-27-2008 06:15 PM

If you pasted javascript exactly, then the problem is that you forgot to close the "}" for errorCheck function.

**Joseph Witchard** · 11-27-2008 08:23 PM

I feel very stupid right now

Thanks for the help

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