how to clear screen and display new stuff

Candyb · Nov 22, 2001

Hi,

I have this document where I am displaying a pulldown list and a list of items with buttons that lead to detail pages.
I create a javascript function where the button go to this function and uses document.write to display the details.

but, I was wondering how to clear the screen and then write something on the screen from within the javascript fucntion.

below is my script: I want to clear the current screen after the button is clicked , keep my pull down list available but clear all old content and replace with new content. new content is the msxml object.

my pulldown list is just simple html.
Thanks,
Candy

<SCRIPT>
function showDetail(tip_id)
{
var display = document.list.display.value;
var detailXSL = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument&quot

;
detailXSL.async=false;
detailXSL.load(display);
var nodes = tipsheetXML.selectSingleNode("tipsheets/tipsheet[@tip_id='" + tip_id + "']&quot

;

document.write(nodes.transformNode(detailXSL.documentElement));
}
</SCRIPT>

Damian13 · Nov 22, 2001

<HEAD>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin
function createForm(number) {
data = "";
inter = "'";

if (number < 16 && number > -1) {
for (i=1; i <= number; i++) {
if (i < 10) spaces=" ";
else spaces=" ";
data = data + "URL " + i + " :" + spaces + "<input type='text' size=10 name=" + inter + "url" + i + inter + "'><br>";
}
if (document.layers) {
document.layers.cust.document.write(data);
document.layers.cust.document.close();
} else {
if (document.all) {
cust.innerHTML = data;
}
}
} else {
window.alert("Please select up to 15 entries.&quot

;
}
}

// End -->
</script>
</HEAD>



<BODY>
<center>
<form name=counter>
Number of URLs to enter:
<input type=text name=number size=5 onblur="createForm(counter.number.value);">
</form>
<br>
<form name="webform">
<table border=0>
<tr valign=top>
<td>Name:</td>
<td><input type=text size=20 name=name></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=2>

<span id=cust style="position:relative;"></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign=top>
<td>Comments:</td>
<td><textarea name=comments cols=45 rows=5 wrap=virtual>
</textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td><input type=submit value="Send"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</center>

<p>
<center>
<font face="arial, helvetica" size="-2">Free JavaScripts provided<br>
by <a href="

http://javascriptsource.com">The

JavaScript Source</a></font>
</center>
<p>

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how to clear screen and display new stuff

Candyb

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