I am trying to return
the description value of
the corresponding author name and book title(that are typed in
the text boxes).
The problem is that
the first description displays in
the text area no matter what.
<h1>Bookland</h1>
<div id="bookinfo">
Author name:
<input type="text" id="authorname" name="authorname"></input><br />
Book Title:
<input type="text" id="booktitle" name="booktitle"></input><br />
<input type="button" value="Find book" id="find"></input>
<input type="button" value="Clear Info" id="clear"></input><br />
<textarea rows="15" cols="30" id="destin"></textarea>
</div>
JavaScript:
var bookarray = [{Author: "Thomas Mann", Title: "Death in Venice", Description: "One of
the most famous literary works of
the twentieth century, this novella embodies" + "themes that preoccupied Thomas Mann in much of his work:" + "
the duality of art and life,
the presence of death and disintegration in
the midst of existence," + "
the connection between love and suffering and
the conflict between
the artist and his inner self." },
{Author: "James Joyce", Title: "A portrait of
the artist as a young man", Description: "This work displays an unusually perceptive view of British society in
the early 20th century." + "It is a social comedy set in Florence, Italy, and Surrey, England." + "Its heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, struggling against straitlaced Victorian attitudes of arrogance, narroe mindedness and sobbery, falls in love - while on holiday in Italy - with
the socially unsuitable George Emerson." },
{Author: "E. M. Forster", Title: "A room with a view", Description: "This book is a fictional re-creation of
the Irish writer'sown life and early environment." + "
The experiences of
the novel's young hero,unfold in astonishingly vivid
scenes that seem freshly recalled from life" + "and provide a powerful portrait of
the coming of age of a young man ofunusual intelligence, sensitivity and character. " },
{Author: "Isabel Allende", Title: "
The house of spirits", Description: "Allende describes
the life of three generations of a prominent family in Chile and skillfully combines with this all
the main historical events of
the time, up until Pinochet's dictatorship." },
{Author: "Isabel Allende", Title: "Of love and shadows", Description: "
The whole world of Irene Beltran, a young reporter in Chile at
the time of
the dictatorship, is destroyed when" + "she discovers a series of killings carried out by government soldiers." + "With
the help of a photographer, Francisco Leal, and risking her life, she tries to come up with evidence against
the dictatorship." }]
function searchbook(){
for(i=0; i < bookarray.length; i++){
if ((document.getElementById("authorname").value & document.getElementById("booktitle").value ) == (bookarray[i].Author & bookarray[i].Title)){
document.getElementById("destin").value =bookarray[i].Description
return bookarray[i].Description
}
else {
return "Not Found!"
}
}
}
document.getElementById("find").addEventListener("click", searchbook, false)
