how to append string to text field

scorpioy

Is it possible that when I click a link or something, a text string is appended to some text field? Please tell me how to implement it?

laserlight

Perhaps use clientside scripting, e.g. Javascript?

EDIT:
But I think it depends - a solution with PHP might be more feasible. You need to provide the context of the problem, i.e. why do you need to do what you want to do?

scorpioy

i have a text field to user to input some words and I keep track what words users are using. In order to speed up input, I put most frequently used words under the text field and let user click them so that words will append to the text field direct.

This is the idea I'm thinking.

a solution with PHP might be more feasible
Could you tell me more on this? Thanks.

leatherback

scorpioy wrote:
a solution with PHP might be more feasible
Could you tell me more on this? Thanks.

For what you explained, using javascript is the only realistic solution. PhP will be too slow, since it requires contact with the server at each step.

lucasrd

Yeah, I would use javascript...you could store the most frequently used words in a database, print them under the text box when the page loads, and then use javascript...maybe like this:

Here would be your javascript function

function appendWord(word){
   var textArea = document.getElementById('textFieldId'); //or what ever ID you gave it
   var contents = textArea.innerHTML;
   contents = contents + " " + word;
   textArea.innerHTML = contents;
}

this would be your link, you would generate these dynamically with PHP when the page loads

<a href='#' onClick="appendWord('probably')">probably</a>