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Text field getting value from somewhere

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  • 27-11-2009 11:22pm
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    corblimey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭


    I have a text field on my form: 
    <input name="startdate" id="startdate" />
    When I preview the form, it shows today's date in the text field for reasons I cannot fathom. If I change it to 
    <input name="startdatex" id="startdatex" />
    it does the same thing, basically if the name of any field in my form contains the word 'date', it does this.

    This implies to me some sort of jquery selector looking for 'date' but I can't for the life of me find it. Is there some way using firebug or similar to trace the origins of the default value of a text box in a form?


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    Evil Phil
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    Could you post the entire code for the HTML document?


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    donnaille
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭donnaille


    Could it be the auto complete function on Google Toolbar or one of those?


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    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    You should definitely be able to use Firebug to step through the Javascript. Bring up the offending page in a browser, hit F12 and select the Script tab.

    Why don't you post the page source up here as I'm sure the error will get spotted quickly!


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    corblimey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭corblimey


    Tks all, think I got it sorted. It was jquery as suspected, but my version of ff for some reason wasn't 'emptying' out the textbox even when I removed the class. I was removing it in jquery and it wasn't making any diff. Odd. Anyway, I removed the offending jquery and everything is sorted now.


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    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    corblimey wrote: »
    Tks all, think I got it sorted. It was jquery as suspected, but my version of ff for some reason wasn't 'emptying' out the textbox even when I removed the class. I was removing it in jquery and it wasn't making any diff. Odd. Anyway, I removed the offending jquery and everything is sorted now.
    That does sound a bit odd but I'm glad you got to the bottom of it!


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