Re: Problems retrieving data from form fields for non-encrypted host

Martin,
Ohh do I feel stupid. Sorry!

My presentation went great last night thanks to you. I have another
presentation tonight and a third one next month.
Siegfried

"Martin Honnen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
>
> Siegfried Heintze wrote:
>
>
> > So now I have these two edit boxes with the default values in them and
when
> > I click add, it adds correctly. However, if I try to change the numeric
> > values in the edit boxes and then click add, it restores the default
values
> > and computes the same sum again. This is strange!
>
> Well the code you posted does that intentionally, it has the following
lines
>
> var aa=322.33, bb=298.22;
> document.main.a.value=""+aa;  document.main.b.value=""+bb;
>
> and that obviously has fixed values for aa and bb and assigns these
> values as the content of the form control each time the add function is
> called.
>
> You probably want to give your function add two parameters e.g.
>    function add (a, b) {
>      ...
>    }
> and then in the form button you use
>    <input type="button" value="add"
>           onclick="add(this.form.elements.a.value,
> this.form.elements.b.value);">
>
> -- 
>
> Martin Honnen
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/