Math operation in html

[mikecantrell]

Hello
I have a html page that I am trying to get data from an user input and
then I want to be ble to sum the data. I would sum mon-in and mon-out
to get mon-time. Then I would like to sum mon-time...fri-time to get
total time for the week.

<TD height="33" valign="top">
<input type="text" name="mon-in" size="7" maxlength="5"
value="00:00">
</TD>
<td valign="top">
<input type="text" name="mon-out" size="7" maxlength="5"
value="00:00">
</td>
<TD valign="top">
<input type="text" name="mon-time" size="7" maxlength="5"
value="00:00">
</TD>

I appreciate any help and feedback.

Thanks
Mike

[Harlan Messinger]

"mikecantrell" <hu***********@bcbsla.com> wrote in message
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Hello
I have a html page that I am trying to get data from an user input and
then I want to be ble to sum the data. I would sum mon-in and mon-out
to get mon-time. Then I would like to sum mon-time...fri-time to get
total time for the week.

HTML doesn't do this--it's not a programming language. If you want the sum
to appear immediately after the user has entered the addends, you need to
learn client-side programming. Get yourself trained on Javascript. But first
make sure you can count on all your users *having* Javascript available in
their browsers. If they don't, you're out of luck.

[Neal]

On 4 Oct 2004 07:26:20 -0700, mikecantrell <hu***********@bcbsla.com>
wrote:

Hello
I have a html page that I am trying to get data from an user input and
then I want to be ble to sum the data. I would sum mon-in and mon-out
to get mon-time. Then I would like to sum mon-time...fri-time to get
total time for the week.

Impossible without scripting. I recommend using a form and a server-side
script to return the result.

[Lars Eighner]

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Hello
I have a html page that I am trying to get data from an user input and
then I want to be ble to sum the data. I would sum mon-in and mon-out
to get mon-time. Then I would like to sum mon-time...fri-time to get
total time for the week.
You cannot do this with html. The "ml" means markup language. Html
has no math functions. Indeed, since it is just markup, html has no
functions of any kind.

You have essentially two options: a server-side solution (e.g. cgi)
or a client-side solution such as javascript. In either case, you
will generate or rewrite an html document with the answers you want,
but html won't do the work.

<TD height="33" valign="top">
<input type="text" name="mon-in" size="7" maxlength="5"
value="00:00">
</TD>
<td valign="top">
<input type="text" name="mon-out" size="7" maxlength="5"
value="00:00">
</td>
<TD valign="top">
<input type="text" name="mon-time" size="7" maxlength="5"
value="00:00">
</TD> I appreciate any help and feedback. Thanks
Mike

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