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Generating Fields On the Fly

Oct 8th, 2008

im asking the user to enter the number of fields he want to generate and i need to take this number and generate him the fields when he click Submit

can anyone Help Me

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Re: Generating Fields On the Fly

Oct 8th, 2008

you mean dynamic text box generation...
or
what do you mean by fields here?

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Re: Generating Fields On the Fly

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yeah thats what i mean dynamic text box generation

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Re: Generating Fields On the Fly

Oct 8th, 2008

hello..
try this code:

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<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Third Santor</title>
<script>
  function generate(){
    var myDiv = document.getElementById('someid');
      var objTextArea = document.getElementById('mem1');
 
    var list = objTextArea.value.split('\n');
 
 
      var tbody = document.createElement('tbody');
 
      for(var i=0; i<list.length; i++){       
 
        var cell1 = document.createElement('td');
        var label = document.createTextNode(list[i]);
        cell1.appendChild(label);
 
        var cell2 = document.createElement('td');
        var textbox = document.createElement('input');
        textbox.type = 'text';
        textbox.id = list[i];
        cell1.appendChild(textbox);
 
        var row = document.createElement('tr');
        row.appendChild(cell1);
        row.appendChild(cell2);
 
        tbody.appendChild(row);
      }
 
    var table = document.createElement('table');
      table.border = 1;
      table.appendChild(tbody);
 
    /*  var submit = document.createElement('input');
    submit.type = 'submit';
      submit.value = 'Submit';
*/
      myDiv.appendChild(table);
      myDiv.appendChild(submit);      
  }
</script>
</head>
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<form name="frm1" method="post" action="" onsubmit="return ">
<textarea name="mem1" id="mem1" rows="10" cols="30"></textarea>
<input type="button" value="Generate" onclick="generate();">
</form>
<DIV id="someid"></DIV>
</body>
</html>
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Third Santor</title>
<script>
  function generate(){
    var myDiv = document.getElementById('someid');
      var objTextArea = document.getElementById('mem1');

    var list = objTextArea.value.split('\n');

      
      var tbody = document.createElement('tbody');

      for(var i=0; i<list.length; i++){       

        var cell1 = document.createElement('td');
        var label = document.createTextNode(list[i]);
        cell1.appendChild(label);

        var cell2 = document.createElement('td');
        var textbox = document.createElement('input');
        textbox.type = 'text';
        textbox.id = list[i];
        cell1.appendChild(textbox);

        var row = document.createElement('tr');
        row.appendChild(cell1);
        row.appendChild(cell2);
        
        tbody.appendChild(row);
      }

    var table = document.createElement('table');
      table.border = 1;
      table.appendChild(tbody);

    /*  var submit = document.createElement('input');
    submit.type = 'submit';
      submit.value = 'Submit';
*/
      myDiv.appendChild(table);
      myDiv.appendChild(submit);      
  }
</script>
</head>
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<form name="frm1" method="post" action="" onsubmit="return ">
<textarea name="mem1" id="mem1" rows="10" cols="30"></textarea>
<input type="button" value="Generate" onclick="generate();">
</form>
<DIV id="someid"></DIV>
</body>
</html>