Javascript clear text box problem

[besly98]

Hi Al,

 

I have the following code below which will insert a value into a text box on click, but i want to clear the current vale of the input field as it inserts the new value.

can anyone help?

 

function populate (inElem) {
  var el = document.getElementById("country")  // display in text box
  if (el) {  // in case 'foo' does not exist
    el.value += " " + inElem.innerHTML
  }
  if (el2) {
    el2.value += inElem.innerHTML+"\n"
  }
}

 

Thanks in advance

 

Jon

 

[Adam]

Your comments don't really make sense and I have no idea why there's a check for "el2", but you just need to change the assignment parameter from "+=" to "=".

 

"+=" means to append, where as "=" means take the value of.