What's wrong with the field value assignment?

[justaguy]

Hi,

I attempted to assign one field's value to anther but am not getting anywhere, and wonder what's wrong with the code below, see Line 3.

<form>
<input id="name1">
<input id="name2">
...
</form>

<div id="nameX"></div>

var n = 2;
var nm = document.getElementById('name'+n).value;
document.getElementById('nameX').value = nm; // line 3

Thanks in advance.

[justaguy]

On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:44:49 PM UTC-4, Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <c737a6d5-2315-4a6a...@googlegroups.com>,

> I expect a <div> doesn't have a value, it has a textContent.
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> Tim
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Sorry, Tim, I meant, <input type="text"> for id of "nameX", not DIV. Thanks.

[Evertjan.]

justaguy wrote on 19 jun 2013 in comp.lang.javascript:

> On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:44:49 PM UTC-4, Tim Streater wrote:

>> justaguy <lichun...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> > <div id="nameX"></div>

>> > document.getElementById('nameX').value = nm; // line 3

>> I expect a <div> doesn't have a value, it has a textContent.

> Sorry, Tim, I meant, <input type="text"> for id of "nameX", not DIV.

Is it a shortcoming of Javascript,
that it executes the actual code,
and not the code that is ment?

Show your actual and minimalistic code that fails,
and decribe what you mean by fail
by explaining what you expect that code to do.

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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
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[JJ]

A DIV element doesn't have a "value" property.
Use "textContent" instead.

[justaguy]

On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:18:57 AM UTC-4, Evertjan. wrote:
> justaguy wrote on 19 jun 2013 in comp.lang.javascript:
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> > On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:44:49 PM UTC-4, Tim Streater wrote:
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> >> justaguy <lichun...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > <div id="nameX"></div>
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> >> > document.getElementById('nameX').value = nm; // line 3
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> >> I expect a <div> doesn't have a value, it has a textContent.
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> > Sorry, Tim, I meant, <input type="text"> for id of "nameX", not DIV.
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> Is it a shortcoming of Javascript,
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> that it executes the actual code,
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> and not the code that is ment?
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> Show your actual and minimalistic code that fails,
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> and decribe what you mean by fail
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> by explaining what you expect that code to do.
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Thanks for the note. This issue has been resolved, silly me, forgot the sequence of loading...

[justaguy]

Resolved, thanks tho. But please check my new question.