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How can I increment the text fields value every time the user clicks in it?

How can I simulate onclick with NN3/4 for a text field/text area?

How can I simulate onclick with NN3/4 for a text field/text area?

Mar 14th, 2000 05:50
Martin Honnen,

IE4+ and NN6 support the onclick handler on nearly any HTML element 
including INPUT TYPE="text" fields and TEXTAREA elements. Thus with 
them you can write
  <INPUT TYPE="text" VALUE="0"
         ONCLICK="this.value++"
  >
to increase the value every time the field is clicked.

With NN3/4 lacking support for onclick for anything but links and 
buttons you need to use onfocus calling your code plus this.blur() to 
simulate an onclick effect. This is of course only helpful if the user 
doesn't want to or shouldn't type into the field and has the additional 
disadvantage that code is executed not only on clicking but also on 
tabbing into the field. Anyway the above example using onfocus instead 
of onclick
  <INPUT TYPE="text" VALUE="0"
         ONFOCUS="this.value++; this.blur();"
  >