I am trying to use the innerHTML method on an input tag and all i get back is a blank string. Here is the code i am useing.
javascript
function setName(ID){
document.getElementById('searchtitle').innerHTML = "Enter " + ID.innerHTML;
}
HTML
<input type="radio" name="searchtype" id="test" value="name" onclick="setName(this)">Last Name</input><br/>
<input type="radio" name="searchtype" value="phonenumber" onclick="setName(this)">Phone Number</input><br/>
<label for="inputfield" id="searchtitle" style="font-size:2em;">Enter Last Name</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="inputfield" id="inputfield" style="font-size:2em;"></input>
What is supposed to happen is depending on which radio button I pick the label for the input box should change. I can make the label.innerHTML=radio.value but the values are named for my php code and not formated nicely(ie. phonenumber vs. Phone Number) this is why I am trying to use the innerHTML of the radio button.
Any help I could get would be greatly appriciated.
you should embed input
inside of label
tag. input tag should closed by />
. It's semantic HTML. When you do this clicking on label activate the input. InnerHTML only works for label then. It will return you label value.
<label for="inputfield" id="searchtitle" style="font-size:2em;">Enter Last Name
<input type="text" name="inputfield" id="inputfield" style="font-size:2em;" />
</label>
JavaScript:
console.log(document.getElementById('searchtitle').innerHTML); // returns 'Enter Last Name'
If you want the value of an input tag, you want to use .value
.
First, add labels around your inputs. Second, use getName(this.parentNode). Finally, call innerText instead of innerHtml.
<html>
<head>
<script>
function setName(el){
document.getElementById('searchtitle').innerHTML = "Enter " + el.innerText;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<label><input type="radio" name="searchtype" value="name" onclick="setName(this.parentNode)"/>Last
Name</label><br/>
<label><input type="radio" name="searchtype" value="phonenumber" onclick="setName(this.parentNode)"/>Phone
Number</label><br/>
<label for="inputfield" id="searchtitle" style="font-size:2em;">Enter Last Name</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="inputfield" id="inputfield" style="font-size:2em;"></input>
</body>
</html>
Complete edit.
Ok, I figured out what you were looking for. First off, you've got to fix your HTML (don't put text inside of an input... and don't next an input inside of a label).
<label for="test">Last Name</label>
<input type="radio" name="searchtype" id="test" value="name" onclick="setName(this)" />
<br/>
<label for="test2">Phone Number</label>
<input type="radio" id="test2" name="searchtype" value="phonenumber" onclick="setName(this)" />
<br/>
<label for="inputfield" id="searchtitle" style="font-size:2em;">Enter Last Name</label>
<br/>
<input type="text" name="inputfield" id="inputfield" style="font-size:2em;" />
JavaScript (in Jquery, for brevity):
function setName(elem)
{
$('#searchtitle').html('Enter ' + $('label[for="'+elem.id+'"]').html());
}
You have closed the Input tag
improperly with </input>
this should be
<input type="radio" name="searchtype" id="test" value="name" onclick="setName(this)"/>Last Name<br/>
<input type="radio" name="searchtype" value="phonenumber" onclick="setName(this)"/>Phone Number<br/>
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