change nick with textfield and submit button

[baarnsma]

I am trying to add a form containing 1 textfield and 1 submit button to send a command to the chat to change a person's nickname.

I have tried adding the following under the smilies div in themesdefaultchat.html.tpl.php:

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<form name="form1" action="javascript:void(0)">
  change nick
  <input type="text" name="newnick" class="input" id="MyTextBox">
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" onclick="pfc.sendRequest('/nick ' + document.getElementById('MyTextBox'));">
</form>

It works only half. It *does* change the nickname, but not to the text entered in the textfield, but to "[object]"

As far as I can see, this javascript should do the trick. What am I missing?

Or is there a better way to go about this?

Thanks in advance.

[re*s.t.a.r.s.*2]

hi,

What you are doing its getting the ID of FORM OBJECT instead of the value of the input..

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<form name="form1" action="javascript:void(0)">
  change nick
  <input type="text" name="newnick" class="input" id="MyTextBox">
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" onclick="pfc.sendRequest('/nick ' + document.form1.newnick.value);">
</form>

But I am wandering because has a Form input that helps changing the nick , it is at the left corner where says your nick...

regards.

[baarnsma]

The default nickname changing input is too much hidden; users won't know that the name is clickable.

Your code suggestion works perfectly, thank you!