Javascript: how to set content of a text area

Mr. Flibble

Can some kind soul tell me how I can set the text inside a 'textarea' using javascript. I want to do this so I can use AJAX to change the text.

I have this:

var mytextarea= document.getElementById("mytextarea");
mytextarea.setContent("new text");

I saw the function getContent() somewhere on the net, but is it just a function somebody wrote and not part of javascript? It doesn't work anyway.

NutJob

is the textarea a div textbox or some micosoft asp thingy?

try should work anyway


var mytextarea= document.getElementById("mytextarea");
mytextarea.setContent("new text");
Also because im in a good mood today and you posted some code heres a crash cource in javascript for the lazy(like me).:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJBkQhA2CRA
can also be found at the chays computer club web site in better quality.

Mr. Flibble

NutJob wrote:

is the textarea a div textbox or some micosoft asp thingy?

try should work anyway


var mytextarea= document.getElementById("mytextarea");
mytextarea.setContent("new text");
Also because im in a good mood today and you posted some code heres a crash cource in javascript for the lazy(like me).:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJBkQhA2CRA
can also be found at the chays computer club web site in better quality.

This is the code for the textbox

<FORM NAME="myform">
<td><TEXTAREA NAME="mytextbox" COLS=40 ROWS=19>stuff</TEXTAREA>
</FORM>

Are you saying the setContent() function should work?


ps. i think you have the wrong youtube link.

ast

mytextarea.value = "new text";

Otherwise check that getElementById() is finding your textarea

Mr. Flibble

ast wrote:

mytextarea.value = "new text";

Otherwise check that getElementById() is finding your textarea

Cool. That was the problem. Adding "id=myid" in the html textarea code fixed it. Thanks.