Hi Johan
Yes I realized right after I posted that the one piece of code in my script
was an old method and not a Prototype method sorry about that. I do use
Prototype methods in the balance of my script. I've been struggling with
creating Elements and setting attributes and I got it to work that way, so
without changing it to a Prototype method I just went on to pursue my
problem. See I told you I was new at this ..lol.
I found the mailing list by Googling Prototype I needed help so I gave it a
shot.
Thanks so much for the help I'll check out those sections and go from there.
Larry
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[mailto:prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Johan
Arensman
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 7:19 AM
To: prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help with element.setattribute
Hello Larry,
First of all how did you find this mailing list? You haven't used a single
Prototype method in your code?
You might want to have a look at the following sections:
Creating elements (and adding attributes at the same time):
http://api.prototypejs.org/dom/Element/new/
Or adding attributes using:
http://api.prototypejs.org/dom/Element/writeAttribute/
And also inserting elements into existing elements:
http://api.prototypejs.org/dom/Element/insert/
Further more on how to handle events such as clicks:
http://api.prototypejs.org/dom/Event/on/
And now to your actual problem, you click a button multiple times and each
time you click the button your handler creates a new button. Without even
thinking about JavaScript, how should any programming language solve this?
You don't want multiple elements, so check if the element you are about to
create exists?
This could be done by checking if an element with the exact same ID you're
about to create already exists. This can be done using the dollar function,
which accepts elements or element id's
(http://api.prototypejs.org/dom/dollar/).
if (!$('elementId')) {
// The element does not exist yet, create and insert the new element.
}
I hope you can use the information I gave you, please check the API on how
to handle specific tasks with the Prototype Library first.
Greetings,
Johan
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Larry lholdswo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I'm very new to Prototype Javascript so any help would be greatly
appreciated.
My issue is this, I have a form that does calculations. At the bottom
of the form there is a button that when clicked updates the totals and
displays it at the bottom of the page. Here is the code for the
button.
input type=button name=update id=update value=Update Total
onclick=footprintcalc.total(); footprintcalc.addElement(); /
This button actually does 2 things totals the numbers in the form like
I mentioned above but also adds a hidden input box that also holds the
totals. Here is the piece of code that does that.
addElement: function () {
var theNewElem = document.createElement('input');
theNewElem.setAttribute('type', '');
theNewElem.setAttribute('id', 'finaltons');
theNewElem.setAttribute('value', totaltotal);
document.getElementById('formtons').appendChild(theNewElem);
}
};
This hidden input box with the id finaltons, is used to set a session
variable which can be used to transfer my final total to another page.
This part is done in C#.
My problem is, if you hit the Update Total button multiple times I
get multiple hidden input box's which causes a problem with my session
variable. So what do I have to add to my code so it doesn't add the
input box if its already exists. Can this be done?
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