Javascript into textarea

Willemina · #1 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 02:21 AM

Hello.

I have a textarea on my page. I would like to have a button, which when clicked inserts text into the textarea.

Do any of you know how I should go about doing this?

Thank you,
Willemina

IS_NUMERIC · #2 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 06:22 AM

HTML Code:

<!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>Untitled Document</title>
<script>
 // function
 function text(t){
 
  a = document.getElementById('tarea');
 
  a.value = t;
 
 }
</script>

</head>
<body>

<form id="form2" name="form2" method="post" action="">
  <p><textarea name="tarea" id="tarea"></textarea></p>
  <p><input name="button" type="button" id="button" onclick="text('this is some text')" value="add text"/></p>
</form>

</body>
</html>