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works fine.
I've got a form with a hidden field like so:
<input type="hidden" name="linktitle" value="HELP"></form>
How can I get my JS to execute in the value part (where it says HELP)? I've tried numerous methods and none have worked. Any ideas? Thanks!
you can't execute the value of the hidden form field, but you can reach it via:
[window.]document.formName.elementName.value
[window.]document.forms[i].elements[i].value
[window.]document.getElementById("elementID").value
HTH, AA
document.formtwo.linktitle.value = 'document.title';
formtwo is the name of the form, linktitle is the name of the hidden field. However, the returned value is then document.title and not the actual title... I tried it without quotes and got nothing. I also tried:
document.write(document.formtwo.linktitle.value+document.title);
an it returned nothing. What am I missing?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title> This is my title </title>
</head>
<body><form name="myForm">
<input type="hidden" name="linktitle" value="HELP" />
</form><script>
document.myForm.linktitle.value = document.title;
alert(document.myForm.linktitle.value);
</script></body>
</html>
2. If you're still going to use JavaScript, you need to wait for the window to finish loading, as the document.title might not be available until the DOM is ready.
Try this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset:utf-8">
<title>This is my title</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="myForm">
<div>
<input type="hidden" id="linktitle" name="linktitle" value="" />
</div>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function() {
document.getElementById('linktitle').value = document.title;
};
</script>
</body>
</html>
EDIT- after some playing around with it (where to place it) it is working now. THANKS!
