Question

I’m using this line of JS:

document.getElementById('nameDiv').innerHTML = 
'<input type=\"text\" id=\"name\"/>';

to place a textbox in a div called ‘nameDiv’. When I hit submit on the form it doesn’t seem to pick up the contents of this JS generated text box.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You must supply a name attribute to have it sent via the POST/GET (without JavaScripting around it, anyway).

document.getElementById('nameDiv').innerHTML = 
'<input type=\"text\" id=\"name\" name=\"some-name\"/>';

I used some-name for example here, you can use the most relevant name.

Also, why are you escaping " when your string delimiter is ' and there will be no clash? I assume this is in a string somewhere.