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excel like effect, easier than it sounds 3

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codeone

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ok, this is easy, because the effect I want to mimick is the input effect. If familuar, when you input values into excel cells you have to first dbl click the field to make it active and when you dbl click another filed the previous field becomes inactive and displays the value.

How to mimick this with Jscript (therory):
you make a table, in one cell, you encode a textbox, name the textbox and hide it. Ondblclick of the cell the textbox appears and you can then type in it. when you dbl click another text box (field) the previous textbox hides and passes it's value to the cell it resides in. Easy!!!!

So, my question is:

How do I pass a textboxes value to a table cell? I tried:

Code: 
<script>
function excel(){
document.alpha.txt1.style.visibility="hidden";
document.getElementById("pid1").innerHtml=document.alpha.txt1.value;
}
</script>

but it didn't work... like always help is much appreciated!

thanks

co

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"The only difference between me and a mad man is that I'm not mad."
- Dali
 
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are you giving the table cell an id of pid1, name wont work with getelementbyid
 
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Remember Javascript is case-sensitive.

You should replace this:

Code: 
innerHtml

With this:

Code: 
innerHTML

Hope this helps,
Dan
 
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rather than bothering with hidden elements, why not just modify "readonly" attribute?
Code: 
<html>
  <head>
    <title>test</title>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      function edit(cell) {
        if (self.prevCell) {
          self.prevCell.setAttribute("readonly", "readonly");
          self.prevCell.className = "readonly";
        }
        cell.removeAttribute("readonly");
        cell.className = "editable";
        
        self.prevCell = cell;
      }
    </script>

    <style type="text/css">
      .readonly {
        border:1px solid buttonface;
      }
      .editable {
        border:1px inset buttonface;
      }
    </style>
  </head>

  <body>
    <form>
      <table>
        <tr>
          <td>
          <input
            type="text"
            name="a1"
            value="a1"
            ondblclick="edit(this);"
            readonly="readonly"
            class="readonly" />
          </td>
          <td>
          <input
            type="text"
            name="b1"
            value="b1"
            ondblclick="edit(this);"
            readonly="readonly"
            class="readonly" />
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>
          <input
            type="text"
            name="a2"
            value="a2"
            ondblclick="edit(this);"
            readonly="readonly"
            class="readonly" />
          </td>
          <td>
          <input
            type="text"
            name="b2"
            value="b2"
            ondblclick="edit(this);"
            readonly="readonly"
            class="readonly" />
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

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-jeff
try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); } finally { rtfm(); }
 
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@ Jemminger:

Wow, that idea was way better!! Looks better, and probably is crossbrowser compatible, although thats not important but still a plus, great idea, thanks alot!!

@BillyRayPreachersSon:
hey didn't know the innerHTML thing was case sensitive, leanrt something knew!!! Thanks alot!!!

@simonchristieis:
nice to meet you, is the iid name I chose invalid because of the name or is the id concept just not going to work with a table cell? anyway, thanks alot for the input and help!!!

@ all:
star!!!!

__________________________________________________________
"The only difference between me and a mad man is that I'm not mad."
- Dali
 
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just in case your wondering the script does not actually work, it basically is eye candy, and the readonly attribute does not toggle, basically it just toggles threw classes which make the effect of active/inactive fields like in excel, which is cool but worthless if you cant edit the field, plus since the css thing is going on it still is not cross browser, which is a correction to above, I didnt really look at the script that well, or test it before posting a reply...

anyway, doesnt work, so back to square one, how to pass data from textbox to table cell...

all help is appreciated,

thanks

__________________________________________________________
"The only difference between me and a mad man is that I'm not mad."
- Dali
 
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hooray, I got it!!! I married my script with jemmingers and the after birth resulted to this:

Code: 
<script>
function excel(cell){
document.alpha.txt1.style.visibility="hidden";
document.getElementById("pid1").innerHTML=document.alpha.txt1.value;
}
</script>

works great!!!

__________________________________________________________
"The only difference between me and a mad man is that I'm not mad."
- Dali
 
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dangit correction: for sake of not looking stupid let me correct my script and my post again!!
Code: 
<script>
function excel(){
document.alpha.txt1.style.visibility="hidden";
document.getElementById("pid1").innerHTML=document.alpha.txt1.value;
}
</script>
no need for the object thing, so basically I just used billyraypreacherson's advice and captalized the HTML thing, so now it works... sorry for the multi posts

__________________________________________________________
"The only difference between me and a mad man is that I'm not mad."
- Dali
 
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ok since this thread became one useless piece of bandwidth, I figured I outta post the entire working code, for those who wish to follow in my foot steps...;)

Code: 
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function edit(cell) {
if (self.prevCell) {
self.prevCell.setAttribute("readonly", "readonly");
self.prevCell.className = "readonly";
}
cell.removeAttribute("readonly");
cell.className = "editable";

self.prevCell = cell;
}
function lock_it(theField) {  
theField.readOnly = !theField.readOnly;
}
</script>
</head>
<style type="text/css">
.readonly {
border:1px solid buttonface;
}
.editable {
border:1px inset buttonface;
}
</style>
<body>
<form name="alpha">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<input type="text" name="a1" value="a1" onclick="lock_it(this.form.a1);edit(this)" class="readonly" readonly>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="b1" value="b1" onclick="lock_it(this.form.b1);edit(this)" class="readonly" readonly>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<input type="text" name="a2" value="a2" onclick="lock_it(this.form.a2);edit(this)" class="readonly" readonly>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="b2" value="b2" onclick="lock_it(this.form.b2);edit(this)" class="readonly" readonly>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

excel like, ooooooohhhhhhhwaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh


__________________________________________________________
"The only difference between me and a mad man is that I'm not mad."
- Dali
 
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codeone,

fyi: to make a field readonly, you must SET an attribute called "readonly". to make a readonly field editable, you must REMOVE the "readonly" attribute. you cannot set "element.readOnly = false;"...there is no "readOnly" property.



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-jeff
try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); } finally { rtfm(); }
 
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well, i stand corrected: removing the "readonly" attribute does not work in IE. frankly does not suprise me with all IE's other annoying quirks.

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-jeff
try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); } finally { rtfm(); }
 
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hey dont feel bad man, your help got me to the answer so it's cool man, thanks alot for your help!!

have a good day

codeone

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