I am working on this form with several select elements with options Yes, No or Not applicable. It was required that whenever the user select yes option a separate date field appears next to it. I used HTML DOM document.getElementById("id").innerHTML for this date field. Everything went well but I was not able to pass the value of date to the form action page using POST method. Check this code:
<!-- javascript code -->
<script type="text/javascript">
function credit_check(name){
if(name=='YES')document.getElementById('div2').innerHTML='Date: <input type="date" name="credit_check_date" value= "mm/dd/yyyy" />';
else document.getElementById('div2').innerHTML='';
}
function employment_check(name){
if(name=='YES')document.getElementById('div3').innerHTML='Date: <input type="date" name="employment_check_date" value= "mm/dd/yyyy" />';
else document.getElementById('div3').innerHTML='';
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<?php include("menu.inc"); ?>
<div id="main">
<table>
<form method="post" action="checkinfo.php">
<tr><td colspan=2><hr/><input type="hidden" name="consultant_id" value="<?php echo $consult_id; ?>"> </td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td><b>Credit Check </b></td>
<td>
<select name="2" onchange="credit_check(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)">
<option selected="selected">Please select ...</option>
<option value="YES">Yes</option>
<option value="NO">No</option>
<option value="NA">Not Applicable</option>
</select>
</td>
<td> <div id ="div2"> </div></td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td><b>Employment Check :<font color='red'>*</font></b></td>
<td>
<select name="3" onchange="employment_check(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)">
<option selected="selected">Please select ...</option>
<option value="YES">Yes</option>
<option value="NO">No</option>
<option value="NA">Not Applicable</option>
</select>
</td>
<td> <div id ="div3"> </div></td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>
