Geting a Cell Content Value

[Steve Dyke]

How can I get the value of a cell when I click on its contents? I want to copy this value to another text box.

This is how I populate the table on my form:

<TABLE border="5" bgcolor="white">
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD>Serial#</TD>
<TD>Int Part#</TD>
<TD>TSO Part#</TD>
<TD>Title</TD>
<TD>Ship Date</TD>
<TD>Shipper#</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD colspan="5" bgcolor="green" height="8"></TD>
</TR>

<c:forEach var="itemName" items="${cssList}">

<TR>
<c:forEach var="cssArrayList" items="${itemName}">
<TD width="183">${cssArrayList}</TD>


</c:forEach>


</TR>

</c:forEach>


</TBODY>
</TABLE>

[Bear Bibeault]

From the Help Yourself Kiosk(tm):

1) How do you detect the click on the <td>?

2) Once detected, how would you get a reference to the clicked element?

3) Once you have the refernce, how do you get its content?

[Steve Dyke]

If I am reading your post correctly I need ssome help for all three of these questions you have asked me. Where do I put the onclick, how does javascript use DOM to identify the actual cell, assign cell value to another control.

I am not sure this is what you asked or needed from me.

[Bear Bibeault]

Right, so you've determined that an onclick handler is needed. Where do you put it? Well, what element do you want to be sensitive to the click?

[Steve Dyke]

While I was waiting on your reply I modified my code some. I hope I am heading in the right direction.

I can't seem to post the code. Get error about using "<" which I had before and it posted okay. Anyway I am using scriplet to give each row and cell a dynamic id. Then I do an onclick on the cell to get the id and onclick on the row to get row id. Then I use these values on the table id to get the innerHTML contents of that coordinate.

Does this sound right?

[Bear Bibeault]

If you are wanting to get the content of a cell upon clicking it, why would you need a handler on the row?