td background

**lord22** · 08-23-2009, 08:22 AM

Hi,

How can I get td's background-color and write it on a specific text field, while clicking on it?

Thank you

**coothead** · 08-23-2009, 11:19 AM

Hi there lord22,

have a look at this example it may help...

Code:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="language" content="english"> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">

<title></title>

<style type="text/css">
#mytable {
    border:2px solid #999;
    margin:auto;
 }
#mytable td {
    width:100px;
    height:62px;
    border:1px solid #666;
    text-align:center;
    cursor:pointer;
 }
#td1 {
    background-color:#fcc;
 }
#td2 {
    background-color:#cfc;
 }
#td3 {
    background-color:#ccf;
 }
#color {
    display:block;
    width:320px;
    border:3px double #999;
    margin:10px auto;
    text-align:center;
 }
</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
if(window.addEventListener){
   window.addEventListener('load',mytest,false);
 }
else { 
if(window.attachEvent){
   window.attachEvent('onload',mytest);
  }
 }

function mytest(){
   tds=document.getElementById('mytable').getElementsByTagName('td');
for(c=0;c<tds.length;c++) {
   tds[c].onclick=function() {
if(this.currentStyle) {
   bgColor=this.currentStyle.backgroundColor;
   document.getElementById('color').value=
   'td id="'+this.id+'"  background-color="'+bgColor+'"';
 }
else{
   compStyle=getComputedStyle(this,'');
   bgColor=compStyle.getPropertyValue('background-color');
   document.getElementById('color').value=
   'td id="'+this.id+'"  background-color="'+bgColor+'"';
    }
   }
  }
 }
</script>

</head>
<body>

<table id="mytable"><tr>
<td id="td1">one</td>
<td id="td2">two</td>
<td id="td3">three</td>
</tr></table>

<div>
<input id="color" type="text">
</div>

</body>
</html>

coothead

**lord22** · 08-23-2009, 08:23 PM

Thank you!

**coothead** · 08-23-2009, 08:57 PM

No problem, you're very welcome.

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