Question

This is driving me a bit nutty. Javascript link should fire function to fill in div. But not working.

js

function showNotes(notes,id) {
    var notes = '<form action="editnotes.php" method="post"><textarea>'+notes+'</textarea><input type="hidden" name="id" value="'+id+'"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Save Notes"></form>';
    var target = 'notebox';
    alert(id);
    document.getElementById(target).innerHTML = notes;
    return false; 
}

html

<a href='#' onclick='showNotes('hi there','143');'><small>Show Notes</small></a>
<div id="notebox"></div>

Answer 1

Enclose the onclick attribute value in double quotes, so the single quotes specify a string within your string.

onclick="showNotes('hi there','143');"

http://jsfiddle.net/77CKx/