Alexey,
Ah, yes! It probably is asynchronous! I should've thought of that. I
restructured the code to look like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("a").click(function() {
var coursename = $(this)[0].attributes['coursename'].nodeValue;
var mydata = $.get("http://localhost:8080/course/"; + coursename +
"/", {}, function(mydata) {
var str1 = mydata.substring(5,7);
var textAreaNode=document.getElementById('test');
textAreaNode.value += str1;
return false;
});
return false;
});
});
It works. I'm not sure what you're suggesting when you say that I
should populate the textarea before assigning to str1, as str1 was
what I was populating the textarea with. Regardless, it works, and I'm
happy. Thanks.
