Mike maybe you can help me out. For a while I've been creating
   web pages. I do a fair job. And I know 4 programming languages.
   Well. The one that enables interface with the web is unique, it's
   called JavaScript. I need you to help me solve something that
   eludes me with JavaScript. So I can interface with my "Activities",
   a kind of itinerary/calendar/scheduler.

   The task is to take a user entry in the page, "Activities", and order
    it in the list. Place it at the top, or anywhere in the list.
   1)Enter new items, 2)Prioritize. "innerHTML" is the property that
   gets tweaked in "the problem". However my conundrum is
   capturing the new item text to pass to innerHTML. I understand
   innerHTML. It involves an "action" in a "form". Where the user
   places the item text.

   Somehow the text is passed to the "server" and stored there for
   retrieval. Sound confusing, yet? The text is explicit. No necessity
   to parse. User types directly into a "textbox" on the page. The box
   at the top in "Activities". The trick is understanding what's
   happening at the server end. How to get the text there, and back.
   We'll get there. I feel sure, now you're thinking, and involved.

   We need to understand the "action". That's telling the computer
   to do something. The something is a function. Functions are
   named and have parameters. There may be more than one
   function to pass text to the server. Functions are series of
   directions to accomplish a computer task. There are a few web
   based function(programming), languages. The one to pass text to
   the server may be PHP, which I know nothing about. But I don't
   need to, if I can understand a little how it works. I think there is
   a JavaScript function to do the same thing. That would be ideal.

   Herein may be the answer:
   
   solution.



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