setting text in a textarea

**esthera** · 06-16-2010 06:41 AM

i'm trying to set text in a textarea but it's not working.
what am i doing wrong

Code:

var emailbodyt='test';
alert(emailbodyt);
var txtArea = document.getElementById('emailbody');
txtArea.value = emailbodyt;

it's not replacing the text area with the emailbodyt text.

**Fang** · 06-16-2010 09:01 AM

It shouldn't be a problem if the script is run after the document has loaded

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title></title>

<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload=function() {
var emailbodyt='test';
alert(emailbodyt);
var txtArea = document.getElementById('emailbody');
txtArea.value = emailbodyt;
};
</script>

<style type="text/css">
* {margin:0;padding:0;}
</style>

</head>
<body>
<textarea id="emailbody" rows="10" cols="10">
</textarea>
</body>
</html>

**esthera** · 06-16-2010 10:31 AM

i'm running it onchange of a text box in my form
here is my full code - what is wrong?

Code:


function semail(statusid){

if(statusid==3){

amount=document.getElementById('amount').value;
//alert("here");
var emailbodyt=document.getElementById('emailbodyt').innerHTML;
alert(emailbodyt);
var txtArea = document.getElementById('emailbody');
txtArea.value = emailbodyt;

 
}


}

**Fang** · 06-16-2010 10:52 AM

var emailbodyt=document.getElementById('emailbodyt').innerHTML;

What is the innerHTML?

**handyrandy** · 06-16-2010 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by esthera

i'm trying to set text in a textarea but it's not working.
what am i doing wrong

Code:

var emailbodyt='test';
alert(emailbodyt);
var txtArea = document.getElementById('emailbody');
txtArea.value = emailbodyt;

it's not replacing the text area with the emailbodyt text.

the getElementByIt says 'emailbody', but your other variables say 'emailbodyt'. Is that on purpose or is that your typo?

**esthera** · 06-16-2010 11:48 AM

no emailbodyt is not a typo

var emailbodyt=document.getElementById('emailbodyt').innerHTML;
this is html that I want to take and change and then put into the textarea

**esthera** · 06-16-2010 11:53 AM

I found the problem

my textarea is using javascript to format it as a wyswyg

Code:

    <script language="javascript1.2">
var config = new Object();    // create new config object
config.width = "500px";
config.height = "200px";
config.bodyStyle = 'background-color: white; font-family: "Verdana"; font-size: x-small;';
config.debug = 0;
config.toolbar = [
    ['bold','italic','underline','strikethrough','subscript','superscript','justifyleft','justifycenter','justifyright','OrderedList','UnOrderedList','Outdent','Indent'],
 
  
];
editor_generate('emailbody',config);
             </script>

anyway to get this to work together with my javascript allowing me to change the text? or can I get this javascript to pull into it the text from the div emailbodyt ?

**Fang** · 06-16-2010 12:27 PM

You can't put html in a textarea. RTEs use an iframe to style the content.
Follow this post: http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=231226

**esthera** · 06-16-2010 12:32 PM

so you are saying (based on that thread) if I switch to tinymce editor then it would work?

**Fang** · 06-16-2010 01:58 PM

What are you ultimately trying to achieve?

**esthera** · 06-17-2010 01:49 AM

I want to be able to chagne text in my textarea and fill in fields from my form (and as they change the values they should change in my textarea)

**Fang** · 06-17-2010 04:19 AM

Do you have a working form example?

**esthera** · 06-17-2010 05:17 AM

http://www.awebfor you.com/t/test.html

**Fang** · 06-17-2010 09:19 AM

Code:

<input name="amount" value="250" onchange="this.form.emailbody.value+=this.value;" type="text">

**esthera** · 06-17-2010 09:30 AM

but i need to just repalce the words from the hidden text field and replace that to thte textarea so this won't really help (plus it's doing the same thing so I doubt it will work)

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