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POUpdating InnerHTML of a DIV on Keypress event of a textbox
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  1. POUpdating InnerHTML of a DIV on Keypress event of a textbox
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    copied!<p>I am want to have a input box, where a user can add or change text, and at the same time (or after they have finished), I want to update the text inside a div, with the text they just typed.</p> <p>this is the code I used </p> <p><strong>JAVASCRIPT :</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"&gt; function change(boxid,divtoaffect) { content = document.getElementById("" + boxid + "").value; document.getElementById(divtoaffect).innerHTML = content; } &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>HTML:</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="border-bottom:1px solid black; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black; border-top:1px solid black" width="50%"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td &gt;Name:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;input type="text" id="text1" onKeyPress="change('text1','output1')" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div id="output1" style="font-weight:bold;height:20px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Designation:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;textarea id="text2" rows="1" onKeyPress="change('text2','output2')"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div id="output2" style="height:40px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Address:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;textarea id="text3" rows="2" onKeyPress="change('text3','output3')"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div id="output3" style="height:50px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p>The problem here is that it updates the DIV when I type the second word in the textbox,i.e when I type a single word it doesn't show up in the DIV and when I type the second one it shows the first word in the DIV.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9pteQ.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/xS1W8.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>And also when I Press Enter in the Textarea field , in the DIV it continues on the same line. Here's the Image <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/g3Zde.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
 

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