Simple Code failure

athanman · Dec 10, 2007

Why does this not work. I am not seeing it:

<!-- saved from url=(0022)

-->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="

http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<title>Personal Preferences</title>

<script type="JavaScript">

function setCookie() {
var expiresDate = new Date();
expiresDate.setFullYear(expiresDate.getFullYear() +1);
document.cookie = encodeURI("user_name=" + document.forms[0].user_name.value) + "; expires=" + expiresDate.toUTCString();
document.cookie = encodeURI("user_color=" + document.forms[0].user_color.value) + "; expires=" + expiresDate.toUTCString();
window.alert("Your name and favorite color have been saved in a cookie.");

}

</script>

</head>
<body>

<form action="">
<p>Name: <input type="text" name="user_name" /><br />
Favorite color: <input type="text" name="user_color" /></p>
<p><input type="button" value="Set Cookie" onclick="setCookie();" /></p>
</form>

</body>
</html>

mmerlinn · Dec 10, 2007

I don't know if this is the problem, but this sure does not look correct to me:

<p><input type="button" value="Set Cookie" onclick="setCookie();" /></p>

Try removing the semicolon and see if that works.

mmerlinn

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BillyRayPreachersSon · Dec 10, 2007

The semicolon is fine. The problem is your script type is incorrect. It should be "text/javascript".

Hope this helps,
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