onkeyup

[nuttynibbles]

hi im doing a php web app whereby i want the user to key into the textbox and the same text will appear immediately in a label/textbox in the same page elsewhere. is there a simple way?

[asa_carter]

This cannot be done on with php on the server. You will need to use a client side language - javascript. http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp

[nuttynibbles]

hi tks.. i tried using onkeyup with ajax and it works. but i was thinking if there was alternative ways without using ajax..

[asa_carter]

You could use ajax but I dont see why you dont just use javascript on it's own if you only want something to appear somewhere on the screen when you type in a textbox.

You would use AJAX when you need the server to do something with the data that you type and then display it.

I use jQuery now as it makes it easy to select and manipulate the dom. There are quite a few good examples on www.jquery.com