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Set to true state a checkbox in a different page(javascript)

Here's the Script.
javascript
function linkPageContact(clicked_id){
if(clicked_id === 'website-design-check'){
$('#website-design').attr('checked',true);
window.location.href = "/contact";
}
}
}
I want to check my checkboxes when I click the button with an id=website-design-check.
Here is my HTML.
first.html
<a href="/contact" target="_blank">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-success btn-block" id="website-design-check" onclick="linkPageContact(this.id)">Appointment</button>
</a>
Here's the second HTML file where checkbox is.
second.html
<input type="checkbox" aria-label="Checkbox for following text input" id="website-design" name="website-design">
Now how can I achieve what I want base on the description given above. Can anyone help me out guys please. I'm stuck here for an hour. I can't get any reference about getting a checkbox state from another page.

To do this, you can modify your button link and add in additional parameters that you can then process on the next page.
The code for the different pages would be like:
Edit: I changed it to jQuery, it should work now.
Script
function linkPageContact(clicked_id){
if(clicked_id === 'website-design-check'){
window.location.href = "second.html?chk=1";
}
}
second page
<input type="checkbox" aria-label="Checkbox for following text input" id="website-design" name="website-design">
<script type="text/javascript">
var url = window.location.href.split("?");
if(url[1].toLowerCase().includes("chk=1")){
$('#website-design').attr('checked',true);
}
</script>

since your checkbox is in another html page, so it's totally normal that you can't get access to it from your first html page!
what I can offer u is using the localstorage to keep the id and then use it in your second page to check if it's the ID that u want or not.
so change your function to this :
function linkPageContact(clicked_id){
localStorage.setItem("chkId", "clicked_id");
window.location.href = "/contact";
}
then in your second page in page load event do this :
$(document).ready(function() {
var chkid = localStorage.getItem("chkId");
if(chkid === 'website-design-check'){
$('#website-design').attr('checked',true);
});

You can't handle to other sites via JavaScript or jQuery directly. But there's another way. You can use the GET method to achive this.
First you need to add to the link an attribute like this in your first.html:
/contact?checkbox=true
You can change the link as you want with JavaScript.
Now it will refer to the same page but it can be now different. After that you can receive the parameter with this function on the second.html.
function findGetParameter(parameterName) {
var result = null,
tmp = [];
var items = location.search.substr(1).split("&");
for (var index = 0; index < items.length; index++) {
tmp = items[index].split("=");
if (tmp[0] === parameterName) result = decodeURIComponent(tmp[1]);
}
return result;
}
I got it from this post thanks to Bakudan.
EDIT:
So here is an short theory.
When the user clicks the button on the first page, then you change the link from /contact to /contact?checkbox=true. When the user get forwarded to second.html then you change the checkbox depending on the value, which you got from the function findGetParameter('checkbox').

As all have mentioned you need to use session/query string to pass any variable/values to another page.
One click of the first button [first page] add query string parameter - http://example.com?chkboxClicked=true
<a href="secondpage.html?chkboxClicked=true>
<button>test button</button>
</a>
In the second page- check for the query string value, if present make the checkbox property to true.
In second page-
$(document).ready(function(){
if(window.location.href.contains('chkboxClicked=true')
{
$('#idOfCheckbox').prop('checked','checked');
}
})
Add it and try, it will work.

Communicating from one html file to another html file
You can solve these issue in different approaches
using localStorage
using the query parameters
Database or session to hold the data.
In your case if your application is not supporting IE lower versions localStorage will be the simple and best solution.
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="contact.html" target="_blank">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-success btn-block" id="website-design-check" onclick="linkPageContact(this.id)">Appointment</button>
</a>
<script>
function linkPageContact(clicked_id) {
localStorage.setItem("chkId", clicked_id);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="checkbox" aria-label="Checkbox for following text input" id="website-design" name="website-design">
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
var chkid = localStorage.getItem("chkId");
if (chkid === 'website-design-check') {
$('#website-design').attr('checked', true);
}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

how to get textarea input from another HTML page

In a.html:
I have a textarea that is converted into a link after the user clicks the submit button. When the user clicks on the link they are redirected to b.html.
<textarea id="sentenceId">
</textarea>
<br>
<button type="button" id="buttonId" onclick="createLink(document.getElementById('sentenceId').value)">Submit
</button>
<p id="demo">
<a id ="link" href="b.html"></a>
</p>
In b.html:
I would like to display the original text.
In script.js:
function createLink(val) {
document.getElementById("link").innerHTML = val;
document.getElementById('buttonId').style.display = 'none';
document.getElementById('sentenceId').style.display = 'none';
}

If you want to open a new page and get the text there, you could use a post-form and an input[type="hidden"] to send the text and display it afterwards.
If you wand the link to be sendable, you'd either have to encode the text as get-parameter or save it to a database and add the id of the entry to the link.
As #Kramb already mentioned, localStorage is a possibility, but only if you stay on the same browser and both pages have the same domain.

Using localStorage
The localStorage property allows you to access a local Storage object. localStorage is similar to sessionStorage. The only difference is that, while data stored in localStorage has no expiration time, data stored in sessionStorage gets cleared when the browsing session ends—that is, when the browser is closed.
a.html
function createLink(val) {
document.getElementById("link").innerHTML = val;
document.getElementById('buttonId').style.display = 'none';
document.getElementById('sentenceId').style.display = 'none';
localStorage.setItem("textArea", val);
}
b.html
function getText(){
var textVal = localStorage.getItem("textArea");
}
Another option would be to use a query string.
a.html
function navigateTo(val){
window.href.location = "b.html?text=" + val;
}
This will pass the value of the text from textarea with the url during navigation. Once b.html has loaded, you can do the following.
b.html
function getText(){
var url = window.location.href;
var queryIndex = url.indexOf("=") + 1;
var passedText = url.substring(queryIndex);
document.getElementById('foo').value = passedText;
}

This is possible using JavaScript. You can do an AJAX call to another page on you website, and search for an element to get its content. In you're case an textarea
I wrote an example on codepen.io for you. Click here
To make things simpler im using jQuery in this example.
So how does it work?
First of, include jQuery inside the <head> tag of you're website.
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
I created the following structure
structure
root
scripts
jQuery.min.js
index.js
index.html
textarea.html
Contents of index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<!-- Meta -->
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>My New Pen!</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!-- Styles -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/index.processed.css">
</head>
<body>
<button id="clickme">To load the textarea content, click me!</button>
<div id="content">The data from the textarea will be shown here, afte you click on the button :)</div>
<!-- Scripts -->
<script src="scripts/index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Contents of texarea.html
<textarea id="textarea">
I am the content of the textarea inside the textarea.html file.
</textarea>
Contents of index.js
(function() {
$(document).ready(function() {
/**
* The button which triggers the ajax call
*/
var button = $("#clickme");
/**
* Register the click event
*/
button.click(function() {
$.ajax({
url: "textarea.html",
type: "GET"
}).done(function(response) {
var text = $(response).filter("#textarea").html();
$("#content").append("<br/><br/><strong>" + text + "</strong>");
});
});
});
})()
So what does index.js do exactly?
As you can see i created an Ajax call to the textarea.html file. The .done function holds the response data. The data inside it can be anything depending on the content of the textarea.html file.
$(response).filter("#textarea").html();
The above piece of code filters out the #textarea div and then gets the innerHTML using the jQuery html() function.
If you want to get the value of the textarea through the [value] attribute, you can replace above line to
$(response).filter("#textarea").val();

I believe you want to do this:
function createLink() {
var textvalue = document.getElementById('sentenceId').value;
document.getElementById("link").innerHTML = textvalue;
document.getElementById("buttonId").className ="hideme";
document.getElementById("sentenceId").className ="hideme";
}
.hideme{
display: none;
}
<textarea id="sentenceId">
</textarea>
<br>
<button id="buttonId" onclick="createLink()">Submit
</button>
<p id="demo">
<a id ="link" href="b.html"/>
</p>

Using JavaScript in "button" self recognition on webpage

I have a website in which I have placed specific buttons inside of articles and outside in the head/body/footer. What I plan to do is when a user clicks on the button the JavaScript code should find out if the button is located inside of an article or outside of it and send the information to my parent website using PHP's $_GET function. This is the code on the 'child' website..
<!-- Button code -->
<p id="test"></p>
<a id ="webs" href= "" onclick="jams(this);document.getElementById('test').frameBorder=0"; target="test"><button>Click me!</button> </a>
The JavaScript functions it calls.
<p id="demo"></p>
<script>
function jams(z) {
var origZ=z;
var found= false;
var sString;
while ( z.nodeName != "HTML" && !found){
var elements = z.getElementsByTagName('a');
for(var i=0; i<elements.length; i++) {
var input = elements[i] ;
sString = input.getAttribute("href");
found = sString.search(window.location.hostname) != -1;
}
z=z.parentElement;
if ( z.nodeName != "HTML" && z.nodeName != "ARTICLE"){
z=z.parentElement;
var spString = (window.location.hostname);
var link = "http://www.parentwebsite.com/one.php?id="+spString;
origZ.href = link;
}
}
var link = "http://www.parentwebsite.com/two.php?id="+sString;
origZ.href = link;
}
</script>
I have two pages on the parent website, page one.php receives the websites name (www.child.com) if the button is located outside of the article. If the button is located within an article page two.php receives the articles URL.Using PHP's $_GET Variable.
$success = $_GET["id"];
So when the user clicks the button on the webpage the button will call the jams script and it recognizes where the button is situated on the webpage and sends to either one.php the website-name OR two.php the articles URL.
The script works just fine when the button is situated within an article,
the href =
http://www.parentwebsite.com/two.php?id=http://child-articles-url.com/
BUT it fails when it is outside of an article, the href
http://www.parentwebsite.com/two.php?id=http://www.parentwebsite.com/one.php?id=http://www.child.com/
What it needs to give is just:
http://www.parentwebsite.com/one.php?id=http://www.child.com/
P.S I have used chrome's debugger while working with this.
Thanks in advance! :)

I tried to solve your problem
index.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Using JavaScript in “button” self recognition on webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Your HTML CODE -->
<div class="aricle">
<h2> Article Starts </h2>
This is inside Article
<h2> Article Ends </h2>
</div>
<br />
This is inside Article
<!-- Your JS CODE -->
<script type="text/javascript">
function link(button) {
if (button == 1) {
//alert("button inside article");
window.location.href='http://localhost/stackTest/one.php';
} else if (button == 2) {
//alert("button outside article");
window.location.href='http://localhost/stackTest/two.php';
}
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
one.php
<h2>This is One</h2>
two.php
<h1>This is Two</h2>
Hope this helps you to identify the buttons.
and you can use the anchor (a) tags for displaying as a button instead using <button> tag inside <a>..</a> tag.
If you are using Bootstrap simply use "Button" Class for <a>.

Mailto: multiple addresses using Cognos data item

I am trying to create a button that can send all clients in the list.
Once I hit the button, it can open my outlook and input all those clients email for me.
Right now, I only can display one email with javascript and the address is not from a data item.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<button type="button" onclick="myFunction()">Try it</button>
<script>
function myFunction() {
window.open('sample#abc.com');
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Another method is only for one email as well.
''EMAIL

Add a Repeater to your report.
Add you email Query Item on it
Add HTML Item before Repeater. Put inside
<script type="text/javascript">
function getListSeparator() {
var list = ['a', 'b'], str;
if (list.toLocaleString) {
str = list.toLocaleString();
if (str.indexOf(';') > 0 && str.indexOf(',') == -1) {
return ';';
}
}
return ',';
}
</script>
<div id ="maillist">
Insert HTML Item inside Repeater after your Data Item. Put inside
<script type="text/javascript">document.write(getListSeparator())</script>
Insert HTML Item after Repeater. Put inside
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('EMAIL')
document.getElementById("maillist").style.display = 'none'
</script>
Works fine in IE9 & Cognos 10.2, semicolon as a separator

How to change the innerHTML of a div in the main page according to the div value in the included page?

I have included a file named test.php in the file index.php
lets assume index.php is like this
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="dash">Index</h1>
<div id='tab.php'>
<?php include('tab.php'); ?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
and tab.php is like this
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li id='date' onClick="change_head(this.id);">Dates</li>
<li id='appoint' onClick="change_head(this.id);">Appointments</li>
<ul>
</body>
</html>
Here what i would like to do is, if the list item date is clicked(list items are actually tabs). The inner html of the h1 tag with id dash should be changed to Dates and if the list item appoint is clicked the inner html of same h1 tag with id dash should change to appointments.
how can i do that ?? i tried the usual javascript way by taking the ids and applying the if condition to change the innerHTML but it was not working..anyone pls help me how to do it
JAVASCRIPT (this is the js i tried to achive it...i added this in index.php)
function change_head(id){
dash = document.getElementById('dash').innerHTML;
if(id == date){
dash = "Date";
}
else if(id == appoint){
dash = "Appointment";
}
else{
dash = "Index";
}
}

You could try using jquery... something like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$("li#date").click(function () {
$("h1#dash").val("Dates");
});
$("li#appoint").click(function () {
$("h1#dash").val("Appointments");
});
});
</script>
Of course, if you had more of these tabs, I would create a single click event handler for all "li" elements and switch on the ID :-)
Assuming you're new to jquery, you'd also have to include the jquery script in your page. Something like:
<script src="/Scripts/jquery-1.6.4.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Check out jquery.com to get started.

If you want do it with JavaScript (i.e. without page reloading), so you need use DOM innerHTML.
Something like (if you didn't use jQuery), didn't test this code through, hope you get idea:
var changetext = function(e,t) {
e.innerHTML = t;
},
elemheader = document.getElementById('dash'),
elemdate = document.getElementById('date'),
elemappoint = document.getElementById('appoint');
if (elemdate.addEventListener) {
elemdate.addEventListener('click',changetext(elemheader,'Date'),false);
}
if (elemappoint.addEventListener) {
elemappoint.addEventListener('click',changetext(elemheader,'Appoint'),false);
}