As several others have pointed out, the problem is that the form is
submitting. If that's not what you eventually want to happen, why not
just make the submit input into a button input (type="button")?
Daniel McBrearty wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just getting into using js to do things. I'm just experimenting right now.
>
> Here is my example code:
>
>
> <p id="member_info"></p>
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> function findMember(form){
> $("#member_info").html(form.username.value);
> }
> </script>
>
> <form name="find_member" action="" method=GET>
> <input type="text" size="30" name="username">
> <input type="submit" onClick="findMember(this.form)" size="30"
> value="Find by Username">
> </form>
>
> now what happens when I fill in a value and click is that the value I
> entered into the text box appears in the "member_info" <p> ... but
> disappears again almost straight away.
>
> any ideas?
>
> thanks. the lib looks nice and clean BTW.
>
> Daniel
>
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