Form Functionality 1

tyleri · Jul 11, 2002

Ok I need help- I have a form - and i am setting up an automatic text paging thing with Metrocall. Everything works fine, except I am trying to insert the current date & time + a text message immediately following the date and time inside of an input form.
Here is my code:

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<head><script>
function showit(){
var current = Date();
document.the_form.message.value = current;
}
</script></head>

<BODY ONLOAD="showit(); document.the_form.submit()" ...>

<TEXTAREA NAME=message ROWS=3 COLS=55 WRAP=virtual>
User Down! Check Heat ASAP!
</TEXTAREA>

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ok - what it currently displays is just the date & time. I can't seem to get it to show the "user down" text as well. Does anyone know how I can manipulate my code to display BOTH the date + the text in the text area?

I am an idiot so if you know the answer I'll need special instructions! ;-)

RISTMO · Jul 11, 2002

OK. If you want to put the date first, you can do this:

function showit(){
var current = Date();
var old = document.the_form.message.value;
document.the_form.message.value = current+old;
}

Otherwise to put the date last, there are 2 ways. 1:
function showit(){
var current = Date();
var old = document.the_form.message.value;
document.the_form.message.value = old+current;
}
2:
function showit(){
var current = Date();
document.the_form.message.value += current;
}

Have fun inserting!
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Form Functionality 1

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