Auto update of text box/label

Simon Dilley · June 6th, 2003, 06:04 AM

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have an ongoing issue with my ASP application. I am developing a Intranet site to enable employees to enter their holiday dates. When they enter the holiday dates I want to have a label or text box which updates with the number of days holiday they are requiring to book. Is this possible to do? Could you point me in the right direction. I am new to ASP and don't really know where to start.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Simon Dilley.

pgtips · June 6th, 2003, 07:00 AM

If you want to do it entirely in ASP, you'll need to post the dates to the server then calculate the number of days and re-display the page including the calculated value and the original inputs.

Alternatively you could use a bit of javascript (or maybe even vbscript if your in an IE only intranet scenario) on the client-side which reads the input values, calculates the days and displays the result on the page without having to go to the server and back. Here's a quick 'n' dirty example which shows how to get values from input boxes and write to the page in client-side vbs.

<html>
<head>
<script language="VBScript">
Sub CalcDays()
    Dim dtStart, dtEnd, nDiff, sMsg

    dtStart = document.frmDate.txtStart.value
    dtEnd = document.frmDate.txtEnd.value

    If IsDate(dtStart) and IsDate(dtEnd) Then
        nDiff = 1 + DateDiff("d", dtStart, dtEnd)
        sMsg = nDiff & " days"
    Else
        sMsg = "valid dates only"
    End If

    document.getElementById("dvMsg").innerHTML = sMsg
End Sub
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="frmDate" id="frmDate">
Start Date : <input type="text" name="txtStart" id="txtStart"><br>
End Date : <input type="text" name="txtEnd" id="txtEnd"><br>
<div id="dvMsg"> </div><br>
<input type="button" value="Get Days" onclick="CalcDays">
</form>
</body>
</html>

hth
Phil