Form Autofill?

Could someone tell me why this isn't auto filling my email field?

I'm using document.getElementById("form_email").value = '<?php echo $userdata->user_email; ?>';
to try and pre-fill the field but it's just not seeing the field right?

The form's HTML is the following: <form action="" name="SUBMITFORM" id="SUBMITFORM" method="post" onsubmit="return CheckFormData();" enctype="multipart/form-data"> and the field: <input type="text" name="form[email]" id="form_email" class="short" tabindex="4" value="" />

I know I'm missing something so simple, but I've tried, I really have....

Thanks!

are you adding that code before of after the form on the page? If you are adding it in the head in a script block, just as you have it now, it wont work because the form doesnt exist in the dom yet.

- why not simply fill the form value directly with your server side code, you don't even need the JavaScript for this.

It is in my head, but the form is dynamically created using PHP, and I want the value to be pulled from Wordpress, so it will be different for each user.....can I still do it that way?

ahh, ok, Im guessing you dont have acces to the code that generate the form or are perhaps unsure of where to edit it?

- if you put your code in a script block at the bottom of the page, instead of the head, that should work as well.

Actually I do know the file, and the code that creates the field, is there a way I can accomplish the same thing by adding something here?

if($dfs['email'] != "1"){
$field[$o]['title'] = $PPT->_e(array('add','28'));
$field[$o]['name'] = "email";
$field[$o]['dataname'] = "email";
$field[$o]['type'] = "text";
$field[$o]['required'] = true;
$o++;
}


Thanks for your help!

im not a php coder bu jsut looking at it, I would guess:



if($dfs['email'] != "1"){
$field[$o]['title'] = $PPT->_e(array('add','28'));
$field[$o]['name'] = "email";
$field[$o]['dataname'] = "email";
$field[$o]['type'] = "text";
$field[$o]['required'] = true;
$field[$o]['value'] = $userdata->user_email;
$o++;
}

This didn't work, but moving the javascript to the footer did the trick....

Thanks again for your help!