[adn258]

So I have a textarea named CommentReview and I was going to using

function InsertHyperlink()
{
   var link = prompt("Please Enter A Link Location");
   document.getElementsByName("CommentReview").value = link;
}

And it's called within a button click like so

<input type="button" name="Hyperlink" value="Hyperlink" onclick="javascript:InsertHyperlink();" />

The prompt shows but it does absolutely nothing. What could be wrong? It also doesn't work with other text elements in the page either.... Thanks guys

[Dormilich]

getElementsByName() gives you a Collection of elements (similar to an array), even if there is only one element (or none) inside. hence you must access the element(s) first to modify it.

// if there is an element
document.getElementsByName("CommentReview")[0].value = link;

PS. such collections have two properties:
- length (the number of elements in that collection)
- item() (accessor for an indexed element, stems from the DOM definition and is hardly used in JS as you can use Array access as well)

[adn258]

+++ That works thanks Dormilch. I didn't know that's how objects are accessed now this is easy.