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EXAMPLE
13.4
<html>
<head><title>Simulation Methods</title></head>
<body bgcolor="yellow">
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<form name="myform"
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action="http://localhost/cgi-bin/doit.pl"
method="post">
Enter your name:<br />
<input type="text"
name="namefield"
id="namefield"
size="30"
value="Name: "
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onFocus="this.select()" />
<p>
Enter your address:<br />
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<input type="text"
name="addressfield"
id="namefield"
size="30"
value="Address: "
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onFocus="this.select()" /
>
</p><p>
</form>
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<a href="#" onClick="JavaScript: document.myform.submit();">
Click here to submit your form</a>
</p><p>
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<a href="#" onClick="JavaScript:document.myform.reset();">
Click here to reset your form</a>
</p>
</body>
</html>
EXPLANATION
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A form named
myform
is started.
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This is the URL where the form will be processed after it is submitted.
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The
onFocus
event handler is assigned an event method called
select()
. For
this
textbox, when the mouse cursor is clicked in the box, the
onFocus
event is trig-
gered and the event is handled by highlighting or selecting the text in the box.
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Another textbox is defined to hold the user's address.
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When the cursor is moved into this field, the textbox gets focus and the
select()
method is called to highlight this box, as in line 3.
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A deactivated link is assigned an
onClick
event handler. When the user clicks the
link, the JavaScript code is executed. The pseudo
JavaScript:
protocol is followed
by a reference to the form and a
submit()
method, which causes the form to be
submitted when the user clicks the link. A JavaScript function could also have
