Thanks alot, i will give it a shot! farzana
-----Original Message----- From: [Gauthier] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: fucused item???? at quick thought: You should try to set a js variable when clicking on the textarea this.name <script>var wichtextarea;</script> <form action="formhandler.taf" method="post" name="myform"> <textarea name="textarea1" onfocus="document.forms['myform'].elements['wichtextarea'].value=this.name"> </textarea> <textarea name="textarea2" onfocus="document.forms['myform'].elements['wichtextarea'].value=this.name"> </textarea> <textarea name="textarea3" onfocus="document.forms['myform'].elements['wichtextarea'].value=this.name"> </textarea> <input type="hidden" name="wichtextarea" /> </form> after have posted this form, you will get the last textarea that was clicked before the form beeing submited into <@postarg wichtextarea> you may elaborate a better function testing the length of form elements and disallowing any input if one is already filled so you are sure that there is only one textarea filled. anyway hidden inputs are often usefull with the right javascript hope this help :) Gauthier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dost, Farzana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 4:04 PM Subject: Witango-Talk: fucused item???? > I have x many text areas in a form with one button. > The textareas are dynamic so i don't know their names, unless i read them > from my data table. > > If i click on one of the text areas and highlight its text and then click on > the button, how can i find out which text area has the selected text? > > I do not want to create one button for each textarea. > > Any ideas how to do this? > > Farzana > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
