merlin — Tue, 06 Feb 2001 12:45:53 +0000

hm, it still doesnt do what i'd like it to...
anyway, it's an optional feature, so...

thank you mark and jon for your support!

jonsteele — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 23:06:37 +0000

You can't use firstletter.innerHTML in the document.layers section. NN won't recognize that.

Also, move the first line of the function into else{}.

NS6 has a different way of dealing with layers. This won't work in NS6.

Good luck on the rest .

Jon.

merlin — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:58:15 +0000

still not working in nn.
i tried it with quite a lot of possibilities of combinations (what shall i do, don't know java... ). my last try:

function takeoutfirstletter() {
  firstletter.innerHTML = "";
  tmp = document.wettbewerb.titel.value;
if (document.layers){
  document.layers['firstletter'].document.open();
  document.layers['firstletter'].document.write(firstletter.innerHTML + tmp.substring(0,1)); 
  document.layers['firstletter'].document.close();
} else {
  document.all['firstletter'].innerHTML = firstletter.innerHTML + tmp.substring(0,1);
 titel.value=tmp.substring(1,tmp.length)
  }
}

got errors from 'takeoutfirstletter' not defined via 'document.all' has no properties to firstletter not defined.

any ideas what i'm doing wrong here?

jonsteele — Fri, 02 Feb 2001 21:07:09 +0000

To write to layers in netscape, you must use layername.document.write. Try this:

<html>
<head>
&lt;script language=javascript&gt;
function do_sumthin() {
  tmp = my.value;
  if (document.layers){
  document.layers[blah].document.open();
  document.layers['blah'].document.write(blah.innerHTML + tmp.substring(0,1)); 
  document.layers['blah'].document.close();
  }
  else{
  document.all['blah'].innerHTML=blah.innerHTML + tmp.substring(0,1);
  my.value=tmp.substring(1,tmp.length)
  }
}
&lt;/script&gt;
</head>
<body>
<span id=blah></span>
<BR>
<input type=text id=my>
<input type=button value="Send it away!" onClick="do_sumthin()">
</body>
</html>

it works :)

merlin — Fri, 02 Feb 2001 09:21:05 +0000

yup, it's working! i added the form_name to the my-stuff...
but, it's only working in ie5, not in netscape... any ideas how to solve that?

anyway thank you!

Mark Hensler — Fri, 02 Feb 2001 09:03:17 +0000

I'm using IE5 and it works for me. Try stuff like document.my.value or put it in a form and try form_name.my.value

the span tag... notic the ID property? I use it later to put the text from the textbox into the HTML page. The innerHTML is used to address the text between the span tags. Here, I added to it with each click.

merlin — Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:21:08 +0000

thanks, mark.
but i get an error:
'my' is not defined...

another question: what's the span-tag for?

i need the whole thing onChange but that i can do on my own (at least one thing! )

Mark Hensler — Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:57:19 +0000

when would you take the letter out? onBlur? onChange? onClick?

anyway.... I used onClick with a button

<html>
<head>
&lt;script language=javascript&gt;
function do_sumthin() {
  tmp = my.value;
  blah.innerHTML=blah.innerHTML + tmp.substring(0,1);
  my.value=tmp.substring(1,tmp.length)
}
&lt;/script&gt;
</head>
<body>
<span id=blah></span>
<BR>
<input type=text id=my>
<input type=button value="Send it away!" onClick="do_sumthin()">
</body>
</html>