Question

sorry for weird question…

so i want to alert (testing for now) values of text boxes using javascipt and php and right now, i have loops creating various text boxes with the same name. when i try to alert a text box with a name, it chooses only the first one… i’m not sure how to deal whit this. is there a way to do this with forms or div? heres some code…

function insertComment(comment){
     alert(comment);
}

//say... i have a for loop that makes 5 of these 
echo "<textarea rows='3' cols='20' name='txt_comment' id = 'txt_comment'>Enter comment here...</textarea>" . "</br>";
echo "<button onClick='insertComment(txt_comment.value)'>Submit Comment</button>";

thanks!

Answer 1

give each text box a same class say “text-boxes” and then use jquery method each

$("input.text-boxes").each(...);

or try giving diff id to each textbox if using a loop like

loop for $i
"text-comment" . $i

and in js function loop with the same thing

for i = 1 to 5
  ..document.getElementById("text-comment" + i).value..