help with smileys

[garydt]

I have a forum and when the user clicks a smiley i want the symbol to go into the textarea but i'm stuck.

	        <form action="<?php echo $loginFormAction; ?>" method="POST" name="form1" id="form1">
		<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>
    <!--
    function Smiles(which) {
    document.post.omsg.value = document.post.omsg.value + which;
    }
    //-->
    </SCRIPT>

  <table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<td>
<A HREF="javascript:Smiles('')"><IMG SRC="../smileys/smiley.gif" BORDER=0 alt=""></A>
</td>
		  <td ><br />
		  <strong>Enter post</strong><br />
		  <textarea name="omsg" cols="60" rows="7"><?php echo $edit; ?></textarea><p>

[phpQuestioner]

try this:

 

        <form action="" method="POST" name="form1" id="form1">
		<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>
    <!--
    function Smiles(which) {
    document.getElementById('omsg').value = document.getElementById('omsg').value + which;
    }
    //-->
    </SCRIPT>

  <table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<td>
<A HREF="javascript:Smiles('')"><IMG SRC="../smileys/smiley.gif" BORDER=0 alt=""></A>
</td>
		  <td ><br />
		  <strong>Enter post</strong><br />

		  <textarea id="omsg" cols="60" rows="7"></textarea><p>

[phpQuestioner]

also; add this in your Smiles() function; so the cursor will return back to the textarea after the smiley is inserted:

 

document.getElementById('omsg').focus();

 

so, now your code would be like this:

 

        <form action="<?php echo $loginFormAction; ?>" method="POST" name="form1" id="form1">
		<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>
    <!--
    function Smiles(which) {
    document.getElementById('omsg').value = document.getElementById('omsg').value + which;
    document.getElementById('omsg').focus();
    }
    //-->
    </SCRIPT>

  <table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<td>
<A HREF="javascript:Smiles('')"><IMG SRC="../smileys/smiley.gif" BORDER=0 alt=""></A>
</td>
		  <td ><br />
		  <strong>Enter post</strong><br />

		  <textarea id="omsg" cols="60" rows="7"><?php echo $edit; ?></textarea><p>

[garydt]

Thanks for that.

When i click the smiley nothing happens except it says error on page.

Any suggestions?

[phpQuestioner]

I don't know why your getting an error - I tested it in FF and IE and it worked fine.

 

See what the error says and see which line it is on and look over your code where the error message tells you the error is and see if you can find the problem.