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Autocomplete form based on checked boxes

NewHeart42108
01-21-2012, 03:10 AM
I would like to use a JavaScript to fill in the total based on the responses given by the user in this form stub: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Formstub</title>

</head>
<body>
<form id="theform" id="theform" action="formstub.html" method="post">
<table width="90%" border = "1
" style="margin-left:40px; font-family: helvetica, ariel, sans-serif; font-size: 0.95em; color: #2D8AB9;">
<tr style="height:3em">
<td width="2em"><input type="checkbox" name="skipperReg" id="skipperReg" value="30" /></td>
<td width="12em">Registration Fee</td>
<td width="4em" >$<input type="text" name="skipperFee" id="skipperFee" readonly="readonly" size ="2" value="30" style="text-align:right" /></td>
<td width ="20em">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td ><input type="checkbox" name="guestReg" id="guestReg" value="8" /></td>
<td>Guest Fee</td><td>$<input type="text" name="guestFee" id="guestFee" readonly="readonly" size ="2" value="8" style="text-align:right" /></td>
<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;# Guests&nbsp;<input type="text" name="guestQty" id="guestQty" size="2" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td ><input type="checkbox" value="" name="miscAmt" id="miscAmt" /></td>
<td>Misc</td><td>$<input type="text" name="miscTotal" size ="2" style="text-align:right" /></td>
<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;List details&nbsp;<input type="text" name="miscDetails" size="35" /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:2em"><td >&nbsp;</td>
<td>Total</td><td>$<input type="text" id="total" name="total" size ="2" style="text-align:right" ></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html> The script should add the skipperfee to the total if the skipperReg box is checked, multiply the guestFee by the guestQty and add that to the total if the guestReg box is checked, and add the miscTotal to the total if the miscAmt box is checked.
Philip M
01-21-2012, 08:34 AM
This forum is not a free coding service. You should learn Javascript. However ....


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Formstub</title>

</head>
<body>
<form name="theform" id="theform" action="formstub.html" method="post">
<table width="90%" border = "1
" style="margin-left:40px; font-family: helvetica, ariel, sans-serif; font-size: 0.95em; color: #2D8AB9;">
<tr style="height:3em">
<td width="2em"><input type="checkbox" name="skipperReg" id="skipperReg" onclick = "update()"/></td>
<td width="12em">Registration Fee</td>
<td width="4em" >$<input type="text" name="skipperFee" id="skipperFee" readonly="readonly" size ="2" style="text-align:right" /></td>
<td width ="20em">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td ><input type="checkbox" name="guestReg" id="guestReg" value="8" onclick = "update()" /></td>
<td>Guest Fee</td><td>$<input type="text" name="guestFee" id="guestFee" readonly="readonly" size ="2" style="text-align:right" /></td>
<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;# Guests&nbsp;<input type="text" name="guestQty" id="guestQty" onchange = "update()" size="2" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td ><input type="checkbox" value="" name="miscAmt" id="miscAmt" onclick = "update()"/></td>
<td>Misc</td><td>$<input type="text" name="miscTotal" id = "miscTotal"size ="2" style="text-align:right" onchange = "update()"/></td>
<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;List details&nbsp;<input type="text" name="miscDetails" size="35" /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:2em"><td >&nbsp;</td>
<td>Total</td><td>$<input type="text" id="total" name="total" size ="2" style="text-align:right" ></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

<script type = "text/javascript">

function update() {
var tot = 0;

if (document.getElementById("skipperReg").checked) {
document.getElementById("skipperFee").value = 30;
tot += 30;
}
else {
document.getElementById("skipperFee").value = 0;
}

if (document.getElementById("guestReg").checked) {
var gq = Number(document.getElementById("guestQty").value) || 0;
document.getElementById("guestFee").value = gq *8;
tot += gq*8;
}
else {
document.getElementById("guestFee").value ="";
}

var mt = 0;
if (document.getElementById("miscAmt").checked) {
var mt = Number(document.getElementById("miscTotal").value) || 0;
}
else {
document.getElementById("miscTotal").value = "";
}
tot = tot + mt;

document.getElementById("total").value = tot;

}

</script>


</body>
</html>


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NewHeart42108
01-21-2012, 02:57 PM
Thanks, Philip. Your example goes a long way towards helping me "learn Javascript". The books I have seem determined to either make the process more difficult than it is, or show trivial examples that do not relate to the real world.

Could you explain the purpose of the "or zero" part of the variable definition var mt = Number(document.getElementById("miscTotal").value) || 0;
?
Philip M
01-21-2012, 03:37 PM
Thanks, Philip. Your example goes a long way towards helping me "learn Javascript". The books I have seem determined to either make the process more difficult than it is, or show trivial examples that do not relate to the real world.

Could you explain the purpose of the "or zero" part of the variable definition var mt = Number(document.getElementById("miscTotal").value) || 0;
?

If the result of the Number() evaluation is NaN (not a number), make the value the number 0 instead. OK?

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