TextBox Values in Netscape

[thisguy]

I was just wondering if anyone has run into this problem before.

I am trying to set the value of a textbox, to a PHP variable. Everything works correctly in IE, but not in Netscape.

In Netscape when the page loads it appears as if there is nothing in the textbox, but if you place the cursor in the box it is as if the cursor is sitting at the end of the value (but the value is not visible). Now if the user types one keystroke in the textbox, the original value set by the PHP variable appears; along with the key typed by the user.

I then went and checked the page source in Netscape, and it all reads fine (the value of the variable is exactly where it should be, and the syntax is correct). I also cut that line of code out of the page source from Netscape, pasted it into a new HTML document and previewed it on Netscape, and it works.

If anyone has any ideas, or a place where I can find more information about this, please let me know.

Thanks in advance,
!ThisGuy

 

[skiflyer]

Version of Netscape?

How does it do in Mozilla and Opera?

My idea, is what my idea usually is with netscape... a tag improperly closed.

Are you using HTML or XHTML? Have you tried closing the input tag?

Does your tag look like?

<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;user&quot; value=&quot;Heya!&quot; />

If that is how you're filling in the field, and none of the other questions lead to anything useful you can always cheat and use javascript (obviouslly not 100% effective, but pretty close)

-Rob

 

[sleipnir214]

thisguy:
Are we talking about a input field of type text, or a textarea field?

Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[thisguy]

The Version of Netscape I’m using is 7.02, and at the moment I am not running Mozilla or Opera.

I’ve checked the tags and everything looks good, I would post the code here, but it is really long and I’m not sure what is and is not pertinent to the problem.

On this page, I am using JavaScript to toggle the visibility of 8 different <div> tags depending on which link is clicked at the top of the page. I thought it might have to do with the z-index of the <div> tags, but it is just a hunch.

I could use JavaScript to fill in the fields, but I think the problem goes deeper than that. After fooling around with it for a bit, I’ve also realized that once the focus is placed within one of the text boxes I cannot click anything else on the page unless I tab through the page and cause the focus to move elsewhere. I also have a text box where the value is hard coded and this value also does not appear in the box.

I am using an input field - type text. I’ve written the code to these fields as:
<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;user&quot; value=&quot;Subject&quot; >

Thank you both for trying to help with this.
!ThisGuy