innerHTML not working in Firefox

webdev

Hi,

I'm writing an extensible form - it contains one name field to start and an
"Add another name" button, so you can add as many bnames as required and
then submit the form. Sounds simple and I have it working in IE5.5, but it
doesn't retain the data input to the form when run in Firefox. can anyone
please point me in the right direction? Code shown below...

Thanks in advance
Rae MacLeman

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>Test Form</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
gCount = 1;
function addName(){
var el;
gCount++;
el = document.getElementById("myDiv");
el.innerHTML = el.innerHTML + "Enter Name : <input type='text'
name='fld"+gCount+"' id='fld" + gCount+"' size='10'><br>"
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<form name="testform" id="testform">
<div id="myDiv">
Enter Name : <input type="text" name="fld1" id="fld1" size="10"><br>
</div>
</form>
<a href="javascript:addName();">Add another name field</a>
</body>
</html>
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Martin Honnen

webdev wrote:

I'm writing an extensible form - it contains one name field to start and an
"Add another name" button, so you can add as many bnames as required and
then submit the form. Sounds simple and I have it working in IE5.5, but it
doesn't retain the data input to the form when run in Firefox.

There are better ways doing this, use the W3C DOM API to create a new input
var input = document.createElement('input');
input.type = 'text';
input.name = 'inputName';
then to insert it where necessary e.g.
divReference.appendChild(input);
That should work with IE 5+, Netscape 6/7, Mozilla 1.x, Firefox, Opera 7
and doesn't cause the browser to reparse HTML that has already been
parsed into a DOM tree.

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Jul 23 '05 #2

webdev

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webdev wrote:
I'm writing an extensible form - it contains one name field to start and an "Add another name" button, so you can add as many bnames as required and
then submit the form. Sounds simple and I have it working in IE5.5, but it doesn't retain the data input to the form when run in Firefox.
There are better ways doing this, use the W3C DOM API to create a new

input var input = document.createElement('input');
input.type = 'text';
input.name = 'inputName';
then to insert it where necessary e.g.
divReference.appendChild(input);
That should work with IE 5+, Netscape 6/7, Mozilla 1.x, Firefox, Opera 7
and doesn't cause the browser to reparse HTML that has already been
parsed into a DOM tree.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Thank you, Martin - that makes lots of sense, and I now have it working.

Regards
Rae MacLeman

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Jul 23 '05 #3

Fred Oz

webdev wrote:

Hi,

I'm writing an extensible form - it contains one name field to start and an
"Add another name" button, so you can add as many bnames as required and
then submit the form. Sounds simple and I have it working in IE5.5, but it
doesn't retain the data input to the form when run in Firefox. can anyone
please point me in the right direction? Code shown below...

Thanks in advance
Rae MacLeman

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>Test Form</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
gCount = 1;
function addName(){
var el;
gCount++;
el = document.getElementById("myDiv");
el.innerHTML = el.innerHTML + "Enter Name : <input type='text'
name='fld"+gCount+"' id='fld" + gCount+"' size='10'><br>"
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<form name="testform" id="testform">
<div id="myDiv">
Enter Name : <input type="text" name="fld1" id="fld1" size="10"><br>
</div>
</form>
<a href="javascript:addName();">Add another name field</a>
</body>
</html>

The following works for me. The advantage of using cloneNode is that
you can put whatever you like in the <div> that gets cloned.

<html>
<head><title>Test Form</title>

<script type="text/javascript">
var gCount = 1;
function addName(theForm) {
gCount++;
var oldEl = document.getElementById("fred");
var newEl = oldEl.cloneNode(true);
theForm.insertBefore(newEl,oldEl.nextSibling);
}
</script>
</head>

<body>

<form name="testform" id="testform" action="">
<div id="fred">Enter Name :
<input type="text" name="fld1" id="fld1"
size="10"><br>
</div>
<input type="button" name="fred" value="Add a Name"
onclick="addName(this.form);"><br>
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>

</body>
</html>

Jul 23 '05 #4

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