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Multiple ids with getElementById();

Anonymous User 4619 19-Aug-2013

Hi Developers!

I'm trying to get javascript to write html on a page when a link is clicked.

function updatetext(){

var file = document.getElementById("file").value;

document.getElementById('updated').innerHTML = file;

}

<input id="file" value="text I want to write to the page" type="hidden">

<span id="updated"> </span>

This works for an ID labeled "file" but I have multiple ID's like, file1, file2, file3...

I'm wondering if my onclick="updatetext()"; should have some argument like onclick="updatetext(1)"; but that doesn't seem to work. I'm not sure how to get the right input id from clicking on the link.

thanks in advance

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Updated on 19-Aug-2013

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shreesh chandra shukla

19-Aug-2013

Hi!

try this,it may may be resolve your problem

function updatetext(id){
    var file =document.getElementById("file" + id).value;
   
document.getElementById('updated').innerHTML = file;
}

That should do it, if you want to do what I interpreted

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