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Having latitude and longitude button to fill input boxes


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Hi folks, as the lovely HTML5 coming and proving that it's an unbelievable language , I found the new technique "Geolocation" very helpful to my project. as a part of my project, I have a simple form gathering info from the user such as name , email andthe latitude and longitude of the user's position. In w3schools's example , the latitude and longitude are returned as normal text above each other :Latitude: 00.0000Longitude: 00.0000 ( not really zeros :) ) my question is: after clicking on a button (say get location) , the latitude and longitude coords will be automatically inserted (filled) into 2 input boxes ( visible or hidden ) to be sent to the database after submitting the Form . is it something to do with innerHTML ? how to do that ?

<form action="handle_form.php" method="post"> <p>Name: <input type="text" name="name" size="20" /></p> <p>Email Address: <input type="text" name="email" size="20" /></p> <p id="demo">Click the button to get your coordinates:</p><button onclick="getLocation()">Try It</button><script>var x=document.getElementById("demo");function getLocation()  {  if (navigator.geolocation)	{	navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(showPosition);	}  else{x.innerHTML="Geolocation is not supported by this browser.";}  }function showPosition(position)  {  x.innerHTML="Latitude: " + position.coords.latitude +  "<br />Longitude: " + position.coords.longitude;	  }</script></form>

the geolocation part code from here:http://www.w3schools...ml5_geolocation

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