Function wont work in firefox

[noddy]

This javascript function to copy text from a text field won't work in firefox 1.0

Any ideas why?

<script language="Javascript">
<!--
function copystring(str){
holdtext.innerText = copytext.innerText.str;
CopiedInfo = holdtext.createTextRange();
CopiedInfo.execCommand("Copy");
}
//-->
</script>

[dc dalton]

what are holdtext & copytext? IDs? ...... A little more code would go a LONG way to helping you solve your issues!

[noddy]

what are holdtext & copytext? IDs? ...... A little more code would go a LONG way to helping you solve your issues!

trying to get a quick function to copy text from an text field to the clip board

  <script language="Javascript"> 
  <!-- 
  function  copystring(str){ 
  holdtext.innerText = str; 
  CopiedInfo =  holdtext.createTextRange(); 
  CopiedIfo.execCommand("Copy"); 
  }  
  //--> 
  </script>

  call to it Use the following code to link  to this image from a forum or other location.<br><br> 
  With BB  code:<br> 
  <input type="text" name="bburl" size="56" value="[img]http://www.lionslair.net.au//user_imgs/48.jpg[/img]">  
  <a href="javascript:copystring('bburl')">copy  BBcode</a> 
  <br><br> 
  Without BB code:<br>  
  <input type="text" name="url" size="45" value="http://www.lionslair.net.au//user_imgs/48.jpg">  
  <a href="javascript:copystring('url')">copy  url</a>But I jsut can't get it to work in firefox.

[TikTokk]

Javascript newbie here. I found your question while researching why a script was working in IE and not Firefox. The answer I found may or may not help you. Go here:
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/will.../25/48238.aspx

What fixed my problem was finding that Mozilla variants to do not support "innerText". You have to use "innerHTML" instead.

[JVLB]

I do believe TikTokk's on to something there. Neither innerText nor innerHTML are part of a recognized standard. Both started as IE-only properties. Most of the major browsers have adopted innerHTML as a convention, but its implementation is purely optional.

Purists often imply that innerHTML is deprecated and that the W3C's conventions for object manipulation must therefore be adhered to. It is, however, unclear who has authority to declare the deprecation of a voluntarily adopted convention, one generally recognized to facilitate simple element manipulations. (Yes, you have to call the HTML-rendering engine in unseemly ways with innerHTML, but the occasional abuse of the HTML engine would hardly seem grounds to slur the poor beast with pronouncements of "deprecation".)