Why does this document.write not work??

Oxymoron · Apr 8, 2001

I've been making this page, and I cannot figure out y this doesn't work. It works when I use 3 or so input's..but not as many as I have below!
I know it's long, but if anyone could help, I'd be greatly indetted to them! Thanx

!

<html>
<script language="VBScript">
function updatePage()
name.innerHTML = document.game.name.value
best.innerHTML = document.game.best.value
inches.innerHTML = document.game.inches.value
crush.innerHTML = document.game.crush.value
celebrity.innerHTML = document.game.celebrity.value
instrument.innerHTML = document.game.instrument.value
body.innerHTML = document.game.body.value
verb.innerHTML = document.game.verb.value
fav_band.innerHTML = document.game.fav_band.value
dis_band.innerHTML = document.game.dis_band.value
fav_sup.innerHTML = document.game.fav_sup.value
fav_song.innerHTML = document.game.fav_song.value
end function
</script>

<FORM name="game">
name <input type="text" name="name"> 

best friend's name <input type="text" name="best"> 

a random No. <input type="text" name="inches"> 

your crush's/girlfriend's/boyfriend's name <input type="text" name="crush"> 

a celebrity's name<input type="text" name="celebrity"> 

choose an instrument <select name="instrument"> 
<option>guitar
<option>drum
<option>bongo
<option>maracca
<option>bass
<option>banjo
<option>piano
<option>whistle
<option>dijeridoo
<option>recorder
<option>flute
<option>microphone
<option>deck
<option>spoon
<option>voilin
</select>
 
a body part <input type="text" name="body"> 

a verb ('ed..e.g kickED) <input type="text" name="verb"> 

your favourite band <input type="text" name="fav_band"> 

your most despised band <input type="text" name="dis_band"> 

your favourite member of Suppers Ready choose an instrument <select name="fav_sup"> 
<option>Tom Holmes
<option>Tom Briton
<option>Tom Jordon
<option>Ben Harvey
<option>Ali Brais
</select>
 
your favourite song EVER! <input type="text" name="fav_song"> 

<Input type="BUTTON" Value="Go!" onClick="updatePage()">
</form>

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

<body>
One day
 was invited to go to a gig by their mate
.
It was to go and see this AMAZING new band called Suppers Ready, who were being supported by
.
Of course
 said they'd be delighted to go!...so they did.
 
On the journey there, they found a
 ,just casually left on the bus. So
 and

picked it up.
 
Anyway, they reached the gig venue, and were overwhelmed by the sheer number of fans there for Suppers Ready (and of course one or two die hard fans of
 wandering around, trying not to give in to the overwhelming desire to follow Suppers Ready).............(they gave in eventually)
 
Well, after Suppers Ready had done most of their set,
 was just thinking it couldn't get any better........when
 announced they were just about to play
.
 
Well
 and his mate
 were so chuffed they both jumped, moshed and accidentaly

 who had heard of Suppers ready through

http://www.suppers-ready.co.uk,

and had decided to come along and see for themselves what they were like.
 
As the evening grew to a close
 and
 felt they had had a jolly good night, and decided to finish it off they'd like to get Suppers ready's autographs.
So they went back-stage....only to find
 with
, who was helping
 hold the

 inches up their
!!!
 
Well, after
 and
 had, had a good laugh about this (having still gotton the autographs they wanted), they decided to walk home. As it was a charming evening
 met up with
 and they all helped to crowdsurf
 over the road into oncoming traffic.

</body>
</html>

cid · Apr 8, 2001

From the looks of it, you are using client-side VBScript. I suggest you use JavaScript cause you'll have more cross-browser compatibility. Anyway, I haven't used client-side VBS, but I know server-side uses Response.Write, and not document.write. JavaScript, however, does use document.write. Are you sure you're not mixing it up? That'd be my guess. Replace the "script=vbscript" with "script=javascript" and then replace the function call with this:

function updatePage(){
...
return true
}

That may help. Hope so. Good luck. ~[ cid ]~

web //

http://www.ciddivine.com

email // cid@ciddivine.com
aim // ciddivine

link9 · Apr 8, 2001

Looks like you are confusing the page by giving the same names to the span tags as you are giving to the form elements. It doesn't seem like that should really make a difference (at least to me), since the name of the form is an element of the form object, and the name of the span is an element of the document object...

but when I named your name span as "name1", and then just changed it up there where you ask for:

name.innerHTML

to

name1.innerHTML

it worked fine.

good luck!

Paul Prewett

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Why does this document.write not work??

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