Adding Text to <td></td>!!! Pls Help

[Forri]

Hi

I have a table row <td id="category"></td>! I have a child window opened and the user has to select several categories. The choice is something like this:

 <input type="checkbox" id="cat1" cat="Category Name">

where cat is Category name value!

I would like that that value is put within the <td></td> tags in the parent form!

is it possible?

Thanks
Nick

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Something like this should work:

// get a pointer to the TD
var destTD = window.opener.document.getElementById('category');

// if it doesn't have a textnode, create it
if (!destTD.childNodes || destTD.childNodes.length == 0) destTD.createTextNode('');

// populate it with the desired value
destTD.firstChild.nodeValue = 'yourValueHere';

Hope this helps,
Dan

 

[ToddWW]

This code goes in the child window where the checkbox is located.

<script Language="javascript">
function getValue(elmtRef) {
  if (elmtRef.checked) {
    opener.writeValue(elmtRef.cat);
  }
}
</script>

<form>

  <input type="checkbox" id="cat1" cat="Category Name" onClick="getValue(this);">

</form>

In the parent page where you want to write the information, put this javascript function in there.

<script Language="javascript">
function writeValue(strVal) {
  var elmtRef = getElementById('category');
  elmtRef.innerHTML = strVal;
}
</script>

That should work just fine.

ToddWW

 

[jemminger]

be aware that arbitrary element attributes such as "cat" are not valid xhtml.



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