[thelist] javascript var question

[Sarah Adams]

> Why does this work:
> 
> document.getElementById("myinput").value = "my text";
> 
> But this doesn't:
> 
> var o = document.getElementById("myinput").value;
> o = "my text";

Because you're creating a variable which will hold the *value* of the 
myinput field rather than a "pointer" (not sure if this is the right 
term) to the value attribute. What you need to do is this:

var o = document.getElementById("myinput");
o.value = "my text";

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