Ok, thanks! This was just an example. What I really want is to hide and
display entire sections of code. Do I have to enclose the <DIV> tags around
each and every control to achieve that? I have a bit of code I use to hide
the contents of a form until all the dropdowns etc.i.e. the entire page has
been loaded. It is the first statement after the body- and headline tags,
and I then have a function call in the <BODY ONLOAD statement to call a
function that svitches the page contents to visible again. I use this in a
lot of my forms.
<BODY onLoad="setVisi ble();">
<!-- Page
headline -------------------------------------------------------------------
------------->
<H1 ALIGN="CENTER"> ShipAgency - Country Maintenance</H1>
<!-- Use DIV to hide form while loading-->
<DIV ID='MyID' style='visibili ty:hidden'>
<FORM NAME="form" >
<CENTER>
<TABLE CELLPADDING="2" >
<TR>
<TD><SPAN TITLE="Enter a code and hit the <TAB>-key">
<DIV ALIGN="RIGHT">< font size="2">*Count ry Code:</font></DIV>
</TD>
<td>
and the rest of the form etc.
....
until the end of the page:
</TABLE>
</CENTER>
</FORM>
</DIV>
</BODY>
</HTML>
and then the setVisible function (which is held in the page's <HEAD>
section::
function setVisible()
{
document.getEle mentById("MyID" ).style.visibil ity = "visible";
}
Now, the strange thing is that this works just fine with <TR>s, <TD>s and
whatever I put in there. That is why I didn't understand why the other
example didn't work (and still don't really) (or alternatively don't
understant why the above sample work...).
Confusing!
IV**@tda.no
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"Iver Erling Årva" wrote:
Can anyone please tell me why this doesn't work?
The sign changes when I hit the button, and I get no error messages, but
the textarea doesn't disappear/reappear.
<html>
<head>
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type=text/javascript>
function openNotepad(val u){
if (valu == "+"){
document.getEle mentById("NP1") .style.visibili ty="visible";
document.form.B 1.value="-"
}
else {
document.getEle mentById("NP1") .style.visibili ty="hidden";
document.form.B 1.value="+"
}
}
</script>
<form name="form">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<input name=B1 type=button value=-
onclick=openNot epad(this.value )> </td>
</tr>
<div id="NP1">
<tr>
<td>
<textarea name="texta01" rows=3 cols=40></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
</div>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Thanks!
iv**@tda.no
<tr></tr> can't be inside a <div>. The only tags that should appear in
<table></table> are <thead></thead>, <tbody></tbody>, <tfoot></tfoot> and
<tr></tr>.
<tr>
<td><div id="NP1"><texta rea name="texta01" ...></textarea></div></td>
</tr>
But you don't need the <div> at all:
function openNotepad(btn ) {
var valu = btn.value;
var f = btn.form;
var ta = f.elements['texta01'];
if (ta && ta.style) {
if (valu == "+") {
ta.style.visibi lity = 'visible';
btn.value = "-";
} else {
ta.style.visibi lity = 'hidden';
btn.value = "+";
}
}
}
<input type="button" value="-" onclick="openNo tepad(this);">
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