Copying from select box to text area

[Anon]

Hi All,

My HTML page contains two or more select
boxes and total 3 text area elements.
I want to copy user selected option
from a select box to a textarea.
So, my idea is the following:

First user clicks in one of the 3 text
area boxes. Here I think I can use
"onclick" and store the textarea name in
some global variable. Then user clicks
on an option in a select box and that
option gets copied in the textarea alongiwith
the select box's name.

Can someone tell me whether this is
possible?

Thanks!

[Anon]

you want to use Javascript

assuming all elements are in the same form, and "selection box" means a checkbox
<TEXTAREA NAME=mytexarea></TEXTAREA>

<INPUT TYPE=checkbox value="myvalue" NAME="mycheckbox" onClick='this.form.elements.mytextarea.value = this.form.elements.mycheckbox.value'>

if select box means 'select list'

<SELECT NAME='myselector onChange='this.form.elements.mytextarea.value =this.form.elements.myselector.options[this.form.elements.myselector.selectedIndex].value>

[Anon]

Oops...may be I did not make it clear enough.

Here is how it looks:

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TO TEST JAVASCRIPT TO SELECT FROM A SELECT LIST AND COPY TO A DESIRED TEXT AREA
<hr>

<form name="myform" method=post >

<strong> firstbox </strong>
<SELECT MULTIPLE size = "4" NAME="firstbox" onchange="CopySelected(firstbox)">
<OPTION> Sun
<OPTION> Silicon Graphics
<OPTION> Intel
<OPTION> Motorola
<OPTION> TI
<OPTION> BMW
<OPTION> Ferrari
</SELECT>

<strong> secondbox </strong>
<SELECT MULTIPLE size = "4" NAME="secondbox" onChange="CopySelected(secondbox)">
<OPTION> USA
<OPTION> UK
<OPTION> China
<OPTION> Malasiya
<OPTION> Singapore
<OPTION> Indonesia
</SELECT>

<hr>
X-Expression
<TEXTAREA NAME="xexpression" ROWS="4" COLS="20" onFocus="get_area_name(xexpression)">
</TEXTAREA>

<br>
Y-Expression
<TEXTAREA NAME="yexpression" ROWS="4" COLS="20" onFocus="get_area_name(yexpression)">
</TEXTAREA>

<hr>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

var t;

function get_area_name(object) {
t = object.name;

// When user clicks in text area, I want to
//store the name of the box so that next time
// user clicks in select box, selected text
// is copied to this text area

}

function CopySelected(object){
// This java script function should select
// the selected text from the select
// menu and copy to the text area that
// user had clicked before (stored in t)

t.value = t.value + object.options[object.selectedIndex].value; 

}

</SCRIPT>

</form>

</BODY>

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I can copy selected text to a specific
text area (not this code), but I want to "memorize" user clicked text area and then
copy to THAT text area.
This is why I declared "t" as global variable here, but in vain 🙁