Reputation: 5
I'm trying to get the elements from textboxes nameBox
and foodBox
to be displayed in the paragraph id=message after the submit button is clicked, with the message:
“Hello <name in namebox>! We want to let you know that <food in foodbox> has 50% discount in our restaurant!”
But i can't figure out how to do that. I'm pretty sure i'm doing something (if not all) wrong but since i'm new at this i can't figure it out what.
<body>
<br>
<br>
<div>
<p id="message"></p>
</div>
Enter your name:
<input type="text" id="nameBox" value=""><br>
Enter your favorite food
<input type="text" id='foodBox' value=""><br>
<button id="submitButton">Submit</button>
<script>
var parent=document.getElementById("message");
var child=document.getElementById("nameBox");
parent.removeChild(child);
</script>
</body>
Upvotes: 0
Views: 87
Reputation: 503
Here you go :
<html>
<head>
<script>
function showText(){
var name=document.getElementById("nameBox").value;
var food=document.getElementById("foodBox").value;
document.getElementById("msg").innerHTML="Hello " + name + " ! We want to let you know that has 50% discount in our restaurant! for " + food;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<br>
<br>
<div id="msg">
</div>
Enter your name:
<input type="text" id="nameBox" value=""/><br>
Enter your favorite food
<input type="text" id="foodBox" value=""/><br>
<input type="button" id="submitButton" onclick="showText()" value="Submit" />
</body>
</html>
You can make your alignments as you wish, try to use firebug (https://getfirebug.com/) in case of finding UI related issues. It is pretty easy to figure out what is wrong in the UI
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 3719
You can call function on clicking submit button and then change the message.
<input type="button" id="submit" value="Submit" onclick="somefunction()"/>
Here is the javascript:
function somefunction() {
var fieldNameElement = document.getElementById('message');
fieldNameElement.innerHTML = “Hello ! We want to let you know that has 50% discount in our restaurant!” ;
}
While changing the innerHTML
you can add appropriate formatting tags as well.
Also you should add inputs in a table, and add border's and required formatting if required:
<table>
<tr>
<td>
Enter your name:
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" id="nameBox" value=""><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Enter your favorite food
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" id='foodBox' value=""><br>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
You can also think about using a Javascript library which provides lot of methods to make your life easy, would suggest JQUERY
Cheers !!
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 202
Check your HTML. Maybe it should look like this?
<div id="message">
Enter your name:
<input type="text" id="nameBox" value=""><br>
Enter your favorite food
<input type="text" id='foodBox' value=""><br>
<button id="submitButton">Submit</button>
</div>
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 2837
That's because parent is not the parent of child. To make it so, edit your code to put the two input elements inside the <p>
tag:
<p id="message">
Enter your name:
<input type="text" id="nameBox" value=""><br>
Enter your favorite food
<input type="text" id='foodBox' value=""><br>
</p>
Upvotes: 1