I'm new to programming and I have the task of revising an existing piece of code. I have revised part of it and I need help with the rest. I need to know how to get a total and make it a "running" total, where whenever someone adds an amount it gives the running total. This is the section of code I have now. It has been a while since I had any classes and I'm REAL rusty. I also need to know, do I need to declare all of these amounts as variables? And what about the total itself?? Like I said, I'm new at this. Thanks in advance!! BTW, I'm using Notepad++.

<TR>
<TD class="body"> <label class="labels" for="gift_num1">Library Excellence Activities</label></TD>
<TD>$ <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="GIFT_AMOUNT1" id="GIFT_AMOUNT1" SIZE="8" value="0.00" ;" /></TD>

</TR>
<TR>
<TD class="body"><label class="labels" for="gift_num2">Education & Psychology Collection Endowment</label></TD>
<TD>$ <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="GIFT_AMOUNT2" id="GIFT_AMOUNT2" SIZE="8" value="0.00" ;" /></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD class="body"><label class="labels" for="gift_num3">Humanities Collection Endowment</Label></TD>
<TD>$ <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="GIFT_AMOUNT3" id="GIFT_AMOUNT3" SIZE="8" value="0.00" ;" /></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD class="body"><label class="labels" for="gift_num4">Science Collection Endowment</label></TD>
<TD>$ <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="GIFT_AMOUNT4" id="GIFT_AMOUNT4" SIZE="8" value="0.00" ;" /></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD class="body"><label class="labels" for="gift_num5">Social Studies Collection Endowment</label></TD>
<TD>$ <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="GIFT_AMOUNT5" id="GIFT_AMOUNT5" SIZE="8" value="0.00" ;" /></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD class="body"><label class="labels" for="gift_num6">Special Collections Endowment</label></TD>
<TD>$ <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="GIFT_AMOUNT6" id="GIFT_AMOUNT6" SIZE="8" value="0.00" ;" /></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD class="body"><label class="labels" for="gift_num7">Other</label></TD>
<TD>$ <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="GIFT_AMOUNT7" id="GIFT_AMOUNT7" SIZE="8" value="0.00" ;" /></TD>
</TR>

<TR>

<TD><strong>total</strong></TD>

<TD>$
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="total" id="total" SIZE="8" value="0.00" ;" /></TD>


</TR>

You can't achieve this using HTML alone. You are going to need to use, at least, some JavaScript. Do you have any knowledge of JavaScript?

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Not much....I do have some javascript code in the page. It gives a total, but it is on the second page. I have a page that, when you click on the button, it takes you to another page. I can get the total on the second page, but not on the first one. Here is the javascript for that part.
}

var num, i, j;
var comm = "";
var comm1 = "";
var comm2 = "";
var comm3 = "";
function Calculate()
{
var total=0;
// calculate each line total

if (document.getElementById('gift_num1').value >= 0){
document.getElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT1').value= (document.getElementById('gift_num1').value ).toFixed(2);
}

if (document.getElementById('gift_num2').value >= 0){
document.getElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT2').value = (document.getElementById('gift_num2').value ).toFixed(2);
}

if (document.getElementById('gift_num3').value >= 0) {
document.getElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT3').value = (document.getElementById('gift_num3').value ).toFixed(2);
}
if (document.getElementById('gift_num4').value >= 0){
document.getElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT4').value = (document.getElementById('gift_num4').value ).toFixed(2);

}
if (document.getElementById('gift_num5').value >= 0){
document.getElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT5').value = (document.getElementById('gift_num5').value ).toFixed(2);

}
if (document.getElementById('gift_num6').value >= 0){
document.getElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT6').value = (document.getElementById('gift_num6').value ).toFixed(2);

}
if (document.getElelmentById('gift_num7').value>=0){
document.GetElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT7').value=(doc ument.getElementById('gift_num7').value).toFixed(2 );



total = parseFloat(document.getElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT1') .value)+ parseFloat(document.getElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT2') .value) + parseFloat(document.getElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT3') .value) + parseFloat(document.getElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT4') .value) + parseFloat(document.getElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT5') .value) + parseFloat(document.getElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT6') .value) + parseFloat(document.getElementById('GIFT_AMOUNT7') .value);
var num= Math.round(total * 100) / 100
document.getElementById('total').value = num.toFixed(2);
}

}
does this help? Like I said, it's been a couple of three years since I had any programming classes.

You will definitely need some Javascript, but I can't help you out with that, since I'm not so familiar with Javascript...yet
But you should be aware that in XHTML, you're not supposed to capitalize elements/tags.