filling textarea with data

[lynchpin]

Hi all,
I'm having trouble getting my head around a problem.
I have a page with a blank text area. Below this text area is a link to an xml file. When the user clicks on this link i want the xml to be written to the text area without having to reload the page.

Does anyone have any idea how i can do this using javascript?

thanks in advance,
colm

 

[theniteowl]

You will have to do an XMLHTTP request to retrieve the page containing the XML you want displayed, then write that text to the textarea with something like.
document.formname.fieldname.value = myxmltext;

The link to the xml should be changed into an onclick so that it executes the function to do the XMLHTTP request to retrieve the page rather than a standard link which would cause the page to change to the linked page.

You will have to read up on XMLHTTP requests.


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[lynchpin]

cheers for the tip theniteowl

 

[manarth]

thread216-1170297 discusses just this.

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