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How do I read textarea value ?

What do you mean? If you have a form named SomeForm and a textarea named SomeTextArea, you can access the value by:

strText=document.SomeForm.SomeTextArea.value

tanc02

ASKER

but I got object required error.

tanc02

ASKER

Sorry ! It is object expected.

Here is my code :

<form name="SomeForm">
<textarea name="SomeTextArea" rows=5 cols=50 onChange="javascript:setFlag()"></textarea>
<input type="button" value="Submit" onClick="tell()">
</form>

<script>
function tell(){
alert(document.SomeForm.SomeTextArea.value);
}
</script>

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a.marsh

Is that everything in the page?

Provide us with the whole page as there may be errors elsewhere having a knock-on effect.

Ant

tanc02

ASKER

My mistake, I should not have setflag function.

a.marsh

Paste this in to a page and you will see it works

<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function tell(){
alert(document.SomeForm.SomeTextArea.value);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="SomeForm">
<p><textarea name="SomeTextArea">hello!</textarea></p>
<p><input type="button" value="click me!" onclick="tell();"></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

It could be a problem with the setFlag() as fritz mentions.

We really need to see the whole page

:o)

Ant

a.marsh

Glad you sorted it.

:o)

Ant