Need some guidence with checkboxes

JimD

Feb 27th 2009, 7:51 am

I have checkbox "Other" that if the user checkes it a text field will open. I get that to work, but if the user unchecks it the text box doesn't go away.

Can someone tell me what I'm missing? Here's the code. By the way I'm a newbie with javascript so the code might seem messy to you pros

<input name="checkbox_other" type="checkbox" class="text_background" id="checkbox_other" value="other"onclick="(this.value=='other') ? document.getElementById('newClientLbl').style.display='' : document.getElementById('newClientLbl').style.display='none'"><label style="display:none" id="newClientLbl">Enter Your Client Type: <input type="text" name="newClient" class="text_background"></label>

Any help will be appreciated

JimD

Feb 27th 2009, 1:09 pm

Got the answer in another forum

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">

function displayField(fieldID, display)
{
document.getElementById(fieldID).style.display = (display) ? 'inline' : 'none';

}

</script>
</head>

<body>

<input name="checkbox_other" type="checkbox" class="text_background" id="checkbox_other" value="other" onclick="displayField('newClientLbl', this.checked)">
<label style="display:none" id="newClientLbl">Enter Your Client Type: <input type="text" name="newClient" class="text_background"></label>

</body>
</html>