Okay, I'm pretty sure I'm missing something very obvious here, but I just couldn't find a proper solution so far. What I'm trying to do
is simple: Have a user write something into a form, have him submit the form, and write that input into a textarea on the same page.
This
is my code:
<html><head></head>
<body>
<form name='registration'>
<label for="input">Input:</label>
<input type="text" id="input"/>
<input type="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" onclick="execute()"/>
</form>
<div id="results">
<span>Result</span>
<span><textarea cols="30" rows="5" id="resulttext" readonly="readonly"></textarea> </span>
</div>
<script>
function execute()
{
var result = document.getElementById("input").value
document.getElementById("resulttext").value=result;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Now what happens if I enter something into the form
is that the textarea briefly shows my input before reverting back to showing nothing. My guess
is that the textarea field
is only changed for the duration of the execute() function.
When I change input type="submit" to a <button> everything works as intended, but I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to do that.
