VBScript - Hide Text Field

[Allyn Jefferies]

I am trying to hide a text field using VBscript

***
if firstname = "test" Then
msgbox ("hello")
form.txtlastname.visible = fales
end if
***

The message box appears correctly if I enter test, but I am unable to
hide the textfield. I've tried a million different things, would
appreciate it if some one could point me in the right direction.

thanks

Allyn J

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[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Allyn Jefferies wrote:

> I am trying to hide a text field using VBscript
>
> ***
> if firstname = "test" Then
> msgbox ("hello")
> form.txtlastname.visible = fales
> end if
> ***
>
> The message box appears correctly if I enter test, but I am unable to
> hide the textfield. I've tried a million different things, would
> appreciate it if some one could point me in the right direction.
>

This is client-side code and as such, has nothing to do with asp. Please
follow-up on a dhtml or scripting newsgroup, where dhtml questions such as
this are routinely handled.

Your problem is that you did not realize that you were dealing with another
object model that is separate from the vbscript object collection, and
therefore failed to read the "document object model" documentation which is
freely available at [url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library[/url], or at a myriad of
other websites which can be found by a Google search for DOM, DHTML, or
"Document Object Model". The documentation will reveal that INPUT elements
(as well as all the other DOM objects) have no "visible" property. Instead,
they have a style object, one of whose properties is called "visibility",
the details of which can be found here:
[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/visibility.asp[/url].

form.txtlastname.style.visibility="hidden"

HTH,
Bob Barrows
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[Allyn Jefferies]

Bob,

thanks for that, works like a dream.

Allyn J


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