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 > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/