Little Help required with getElementbyId function.

hi,

i want a simple display of two things: a textarea and how will it look.
i hope u understand me.
this is the code i used:

<script language='javascript'>
document.getElementById('testDemo').innerHTML="{$text}";
function doEdit() {
document.getElementById('testDemo').innerHTML=document.getElementById('tos').value;
}


</script>
<textarea name='tos' id='tos' cols=40 rows=15 onmousemove='doEdit()'>{$text}</textarea></td><td><div id='testDemo'></div>

Code (markup):

{$text} is a variable and is not the source of error,i am sure.
the code worked,until i refreshed few times. plz help me.

 

Have you tried something like
<textarea name='tos' id='tos' cols=40 rows=15 onmousemove='doEdit()' value='{$text}'></textarea> ?

 

that made my code even worse.
there is no "value" attribute for textarea

 

jaimegm, PM me about the awesome stuff you're smoking man. Seems like you're pretty stoned. 
Oh yea, <textarea> doesn't have a "value" attribute BTW..... 

 

i tried this and it worked 100% fine:

<script language='javascript'>

function doEdit() {
document.getElementById('testDemo').innerHTML=document.getElementById('tos').value;
}


</script>
<textarea name='tos' id='tos' cols=40 rows=15 onmousemove='doEdit()'>{$text}</textarea><div id='testDemo'>{$text}</div>

Code (markup):

 

the problem with your code is that you executed document.getElementById('testDemo').innerHTML="{$text}"; before the <div id='testDemo'></div> element is created, what you can do is move your script after <div id='testDemo'></div>. it will look something like this...

  <textarea name='tos' id='tos' cols=40 rows=15 onmousemove='doEdit()'>{$text}</textarea></td><td><div id='testDemo'></div> 
<script language='javascript'> 
document.getElementById('testDemo').innerHTML="{$text}"; 
function doEdit() { 
  document.getElementById('testDemo').innerHTML=document.getElementById('tos').value; 
} 
</script>

HTML:

 

i don't think that matters.........
the code i provided is not the complete code m using.
in the actual code, <div id='testDemo'></div> came first
anyways thx for the effort........