If box empty use other input area

**motormichael12** · 10-14-2006, 10:20 PM

Can anyone give me a script that makes it so when using a form, if a textbox is emtpy, it uses the data from another hidden textbox?

I am not very good at scripting things for vars and ifs... so please help

something like this, even though it is wrong it is for example... pretend it is all in a form tag

Code:

<textarea name="text1"></textarea>
<div id="text1data">text1's data</div>

<script>
if "text1" value=empty
insert image into "text1data" div
</script>

then the box would use the value specified for text2 if the box "text1" is emtpy.

*CODE IN THIS POST EDITED AFTER POST NUMBER 6*

**motormichael12** · 10-14-2006, 10:20 PM

lol i cant do good scripts like that so it might be confusing... sorry

**tech_support** · 10-14-2006, 10:40 PM

Code:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

function checkValues() {

formname  = 'yourformname'
fieldname = 'yourfieldname'
fieldname2 = 'yourhiddenfield'
if (document.forms[formname].elements[fieldname].value=="") {

document.forms[formname].elements[fieldname].value = document.forms[formname].elements[fieldname2].value

}
else {
return;
}
}
</script>

Untested.