
Originally Posted by
jakeselectronics
I dont want the 1's and 0's in a textarea.... how can I get this to show in the normal line of text.
You mean an input/text field/form control? A textarea is a different form control than what you're using. To change the text in another kind of element, you can get a text node child of the element and assign to the text node's nodeValue property:
HTML Code:
<span id="display">0xDEADBEEF</span>
<script type="text/javascript">
display = document.getElementById("display");
display.firstChild.nodeValue = '0xCAFEBABE';
</script>
Note that if #display were initially empty, the above wouldn't work because #display wouldn't have any text node children.
An alternative is to leave the text input and style it so that it's indistinguishable from the surrounding text:
HTML Code:
<input id="display" value="10010110101000" size="14" />
<style type="text/css">
#display {
background-color: transparent; /* may not work on some versions of IE */
border-width: 0px;
}
</style>