replace all textboxes with their respective values

**solitario** · Oct 12th, 2007, 05:07 PM

Hello all.

I would like to loop through all textboxes on a page and replace each textbox with it's default value.

So if I have:

Code:

<input name="user_name" type="text" value="solitario">

I would like to remove the texbox itself, and write the value to the page, and here's the kicker: where the textbox appears.

Right now I'm using a ridiculous set of stripos, strrpos, etc., functions. But I was wondering if this could be done with JavaScript.

Many thanks.

**coothead** · Oct 21st, 2007, 05:07 PM

Hi there solitario,

have a look at this example it may suit your requirements...

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>remove inputs and replace with divs</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<style type="text/css">
.neat {
    width:6em;
    line-height:2em;
    border:0.25em double #999;
    font-family:serif;
    font-size:1em;
    color:#000;
    text-align:center;
    background-color:#eef;
    margin:0.25em auto;
 }
</style>

<script type="text/javascript">

   var dv=[];
   var count=0;

window.onload=function(){
   obj=document.forms[0].getElementsByTagName('div')[0];
   cn=obj.childNodes;

for(c=0;c<cn.length;c++) {
if(cn[c].nodeType==1) {
   dv[count]=document.createElement('div');
   dv[count].className='neat';
   dv[count].appendChild(document.createTextNode(cn[c].value));
   count++;
  }
 }
for(c=0;c<cn.length;c++) {
if(cn[c].nodeType==1) {
   obj.removeChild(obj.childNodes[c]);
  }
 }
for(c=0;c<dv.length;c++){
   obj.appendChild(dv[c]);
  }
 }
</script>

</head>
<body>

<form action="#">
<div>
<input name="user_name" type="text" value="solitario">
<input name="user_name_one" type="text" value="lorem">
<input name="user_name_two" type="text" value="ipsum">
<input name="user_name_three" type="text" value="dolor">
<input name="user_name_four" type="text" value="sit">
</div>
</form>

</body>
</html>

coothead

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