[thelist] [JS] trying to do a bookmarklet and failing

[Tom Dell'Aringa]

Hi folks,

I've been trying to build this little bookmarklet that resizes a
textarea on a page. I've read some tutorials online but I can't get
mine to work. Here's the deal. I have a textarea on the page:

<textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="20"></textarea>

I want to click the bookmarklet and make the rows/cols like 40/100,
so I tried:

<a href="javascript:document.formName.message.rows=40;
document.formName.message.cols=100;">Adjust Box</a>

What happens there is I get a new page with the text '100' - so I
figured I needed a 'return false;' at the end. Trying that gives me
an 'invalid return' error.

<a href="javascript:document.formName.message.rows=40;
document.formName.message.cols=100;return false;">Adjust Box</a>

So lastly, I tried using the old void method:

<a href="javascript: void(document.formName.message.rows=40;
document.formName.message.cols=100)">Adjust Box</a>

Yet I get 

Error: missing ) in parenthetical
Source File: javascript: void(document.formName.message.rows=40;
document.formName.message.cols=100)
Line: 1, Column: 37
Source Code:
 void(document.formName.message.rows=40;
document.vbform.message.cols=100)

I don't see where a parenthetical is missing at all. Any help is
appreciated - this should be simple but nothing works.

Tom



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