textarea.value='X' Not working in Firefox

[anonnerz]

I've been trying for ages to be able to set textarea values in firefox to no avail. It just doesn't register the textarea... Any help?

Here is the relevant codes:

From the javascript file:
[code]function set(toset, img, iid, thelink) {
link = thelink;
do_id = iid;
document.main.src = img + '&x=300&y=300';
Image_Desc.value = toset;
}[/code]

The image setting it (it's an onmousedown... as you can see)
[code]
onMouseDown="
set('{$this->sql_fetch[desc]}', 'image_resize.php?src=uploads/{$this->sql_fetch[File]}', '{$this->sql_fetch[id]}', 'uploads/{$this->sql_fetch[File]}');
setCookie('page_{$this->sql_fetch[Item_ID]}','{$this->sql_fetch[File]}', '6');
setCookie('page_{$this->sql_fetch[Item_ID]}_desc', '{$this->sql_fetch[desc]}', '6');
setCookie('page_{$this->sql_fetch[Item_ID]}_x','300', '6');  setCookie('page_{$this->sql_fetch[Item_ID]}_y','220', '6');
setCookie('page_{$this->sql_fetch[Item_ID]}_link','uploads/{$this->sql_fetch[File]}', '6')" >
[/code]

The textarea:
[code]
<textarea name="Image_Desc" cols="30" readonly align=left style='height: 200px;'><?if (file_exists('Uploads/'.$_COOKIE[$cookie])) { echo stripslashes($_COOKIE['page_'.$_GET[id].'_desc']); } else if(!file_exists('Uploads/'.$_COOKIE[$cookie])) { echo $Pic_Viewer->first_image[desc]; } ?></textarea>





[/code]


It all works in IE but firefox doesn't like it. Any ideas?

[anonnerz]

Thanks for looking if you came, fixed it.

For others with similar problem you have to put the text area in a form and refer to that form via document.form.textarea.value (with relevant values supplementing form and textarea of course).

Thanks =D

[Daniel0]

You can also use the id tag along with the javascript function getelementbyid()

[obsidian]

they underlying problem is that the textarea has no value property, so you're better off to use the innerHTML attribute instead.