Completely OT

[inhahe]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Victor Subervi
<victorsubervi at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:39 PM, inhahe <inhahe at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> i'm pretty new to javascript programming, but i'm pretty sure you just
>> need ajax, which AFAIK is a highly technical way of saying "using
>> javascript in a way that makes web pages interactive"
>> JSON afaik is a way of data to and from the server that allows for
>> lists and more variable types and such, but also requires the user
>> download a third-party js file that implements JSON.  i don't think
>> you'd technically need JSON, because you could simply send the server
>> a string of all the colors selected delimited by a space or | or
>> something.
>> javascript also probably has inherent functions for generating xml,
>> considering that the object you use to communicate with the server is
>> an xmlhttprequst. but i think xml might be overkill in this case.
>>
>> the javascript would populate the list for the colors the user selects
>> (the easiest way would probably be to give the list an id and use
>> getElementByID()), and then when he's done it would create an
>> xmlhttprequest object to send the data to the server.
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> If I'm not mistaken, that won't help me actually print to screen the user's
> choices as he selects them, which in my application, is important. Please
> advise.
> TIA,
> V


sure, that's where this part comes in:

the javascript would populate the list for the colors the user selects
(the easiest way would probably be to give the list an id and use
getElementByID())

so basically you'd define, e.g., an onClick="blah('red'); return true"
within the red element's tag, and then define a function blah(x) that
says
getElementById("my_list_id").innerHtml += "<br>" + x;
and of course give your list textarea an id="my_list_id" attribute in the tag.

that could be slightly wrong, my javascript's rusty