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Display data from VBScript on a text box

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rwei

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I use VBScript to generate some text information, which I'd like to store it on a <INPUT Type="Text"> field on a Form, so that when it displays, user gets to either accept it or change it before pressing <Submit>.

How do you do this? Thanks.
 
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This is not exactly a HTML question, but let's try to work it out anyway. <input> holds its information in the attribute value, so you would insert data there:
Code: 
<input type="text" value="<% Response.Write(strData) %>" />
This input box will have the value filled with whatever is in the variable strData.
 
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Thanks, but what about the client-side VBScript, instead of ASP code?

 
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I guess you would do it similarly to Javascript:
Code: 
<script type="text/VBScript">
  document.getElementById("MyInputBox").value = "This is dynamically inserted value."
</script>

<input type="text" id="MyInputBox" />
This is untested, since I don't use client-side VBScript, because only IE supports it.
 
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For some strange reason, this still doesn't work. I'll play with it a bit longer.
 
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Also, can't you use JavaScript? It's support is much wider than VBScript. Unless this is a corporate intranet where users must use IE, I suggest JS.
 
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This indeed is an intranet, so it's IE and VBScript. You can certainly use JS to explain or help me.

But, I am not sure this is a JS or VBS issue, it might be more to do with my understanding (or lack of) of HTML & client-side scripting. Or possibly, I didn't explain my problem right?

Basically, I have a client-side script (you can think JS), that executes in the beginning of the HTML <Body> and which generates a string. After this string is generated, I want this string to fill a <INPUT ID=abc> text box within a <Form ID=xyz>. So that users can either press <Submit> to continue, or change the string before submitting.

This sounds such a normal operation. Am I right?



 
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I've had it resolved. Thank you all.

I had the script executed in the very begining of the HTML, before it can recognize the existence of the text box. Once I move the script execution after the text box, it finds it.
 
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