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    copied!<p>i have javascript function. i am using that function to translate english language to another language in a text field. as below form when a person type in box01, box02 shows typed english content in translated mode.</p> <pre><code> &lt;form id="txtBox" action="ps.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post"&gt; &lt;textarea id="box01" onkeyup="startText_sin();" onselect="startText_sin();" onclick="startText_sin();" rows="2" placeholder ="Type in Here"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;textarea id="box02" rows="2" placeholder ="Translated"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>but <strong>i have few of these forms in my single page</strong> and the text areas have diffrent names, like bellow,</p> <pre><code> &lt;textarea id="txt_sin01"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;textarea id="txt_trn02"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; </code></pre> <p>how can i can set function to be work with all of these text areas ?<br> my function is <code>**startText_sin()**</code><br></p> <p>in function i choose text area like this <code>text = document.getElementById("box01");</code></p> <p>any help.</p> <p><em><strong></em>__<em>_</em>___</strong><em>function</em><strong><em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>_</strong><br></p> <p>` //array goes here</p> <p>function startText_sin() {</p> <pre><code>var s,r,v; //text = document.txtBox.box1.value; text_singlish = document.getElementById("box1_singlish").value; //special consonents for (var i=0; i&lt;specialConsonants.length; i++){ text_singlish = text_singlish.replace(specialConsonants[i], specialConsonantsUni[i]); } //consonents + special Chars for (var i=0; i&lt;specialCharUni.length; i++){ for (var j=0;j&lt;consonants.length;j++){ s = consonants[j] + specialChar[i]; v = consonantsUni[j] + specialCharUni[i]; r = new RegExp(s, "g"); text_singlish = text_singlish.replace(r, v); } } //consonants + Rakaransha + vowel modifiers for (var j=0;j&lt;consonants.length;j++){ for (var i=0;i&lt;vowels.length;i++){ s = consonants[j] + "r" + vowels[i]; v = consonantsUni[j] + "්‍ර" + vowelModifiersUni[i]; r = new RegExp(s, "g"); text_singlish = text_singlish.replace(r, v); } s = consonants[j] + "r"; v = consonantsUni[j] + "්‍ර"; r = new RegExp(s, "g"); text_singlish = text_singlish.replace(r, v); } //consonents + vowel modifiers for (var i=0;i&lt;consonants.length;i++){ for (var j=0;j&lt;nVowels;j++){ s = consonants[i]+vowels[j]; v = consonantsUni[i] + vowelModifiersUni[j]; r = new RegExp(s, "g"); text_singlish = text_singlish.replace(r, v); } } //consonents + HAL for (var i=0; i&lt;consonants.length; i++){ r = new RegExp(consonants[i], "g"); text_singlish = text_singlish.replace(r, consonantsUni[i]+"්"); } //vowels for (var i=0; i&lt;vowels.length; i++){ r = new RegExp(vowels[i], "g"); text_singlish = text_singlish.replace(r, vowelsUni[i]); } document.getElementById("box2_singlish").value=text_singlish; //wirte on page in sihala </code></pre> <p>} </p> <p>`</p>
 

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