Shoutbox

Me again this time i'm truely lost, i've searched google and found exactly what i need to do, but when i do it, it doesn't work. It goes as such..

code:

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function quote(id) {
  var username = eval("document.quote.q"+id+".value");
  document.inputform.message.value += quote\r\n;
  document.inputform.message.focus();
}

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code:

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<form method='post' name='inputform' onsubmit='return checkForm(this)'>
    <textarea name='message' rows='10' cols='50'</textarea>
</form>

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Now all works fine, i can get the info out of qid and show it in an alert fine, my problem comes with the other two js statements.

1. It won't put the text in the textarea.
2. when doing focus(), IE says "Object doesn't support this property method"

So am at a loss right now