Set Text on Button with fieldset attribute

I'd like to create roll buttons with the name of a player's custom skills. The intent is to style away the buttons decorations so the player thinks he's clicking on regular text. The problem, of course, is I have no idea how I'd put the text of a given fieldset attribute onto the front of a button. I've left a stripped down html snippet as an example. In bold, find the mysterious, magical tag I wish worked, but doesn't. How could I achieve this?

<input type="hidden" class="sheet-skillstoggle" name="attr_skillsTab" value="skillsunlocked" />
<div class="skills-ca">    
    <div class="skills-row">
        <span class="skills-header-left">Other Skills</span>
        <span class="skills-header-right">Abilities</span>
        <button type="action" class="icons" name="act_skillslocked">)</button>
    </div><fieldset class="repeating_skill"><div class="skills-row">
        <input type="text" name="attr_skillname">
    </div></fieldset>
</div>

<div class="skills-cb">
    <div class="skills-row">
        <span class="skills-header-left">Other Skills</span>
        <span class="skills-header-right">Mastery</span>
        <button type="action" class="icons" name="act_skillsunlocked">(</button>
    </div><fieldset class="repeating_skill"><div class="skills-row">
         <button class="roll" value="whatever">@{attr_skillname}</button>
         <input type="text" maxlength="3" name="attr_mastery">
         <span class="unit">%</span>
     </div></fieldset>
</div>

You never use the attr_ part when referring to an attribute. That isnt part of the attribute name, it's a flag to tell roll20 what kind of name this is (for isntance you can have roll_ and act_ as roll button and action button names). so that should be

 <button class="roll" value="whatever">@{skillname}</button>

That probably still doesn't work, as you need something capable of reading the attribute value. A good way to do this is an attribute backed span:

<button class="roll" value="whatever"><span name="attr_skillname></span></button>

Then if you have the skillname properly defined, the name should show up. Note that you do use attr_ here. The only time you ever use it is immediately after a name=" start. You never use it with @{name} syntax.

That said, I'm curious why you have the repeating_skill fieldset defined in two separate places. That may not work as expected.

That was the missing piece, thank you!

So far, using repeating_skill in two places is working fine. skills-ca is for entering new skills, while skills-cb is the "locked" view that presents skills in a way which looks indistinguishable from the static skills hardcoded onto the sheet. I've got a button I can press to toggle between the two representations, and the repcontrol buttons will be display: none on the skills-cb view. It's working great so far.

Is this actually a bad idea? I'm trying to emulate some of the functionality one finds on the D&D 5e sheet (say, with adding new spells).

The Patfinder 2E sheet is one where buttons for melee/ranged strikes changes name dynamically based on the strike's name, and should would in a similar manner to what you're looking for.

n0q said:

That was the missing piece, thank you!

So far, using repeating_skill in two places is working fine. skills-ca is for entering new skills, while skills-cb is the "locked" view that presents skills in a way which looks indistinguishable from the static skills hardcoded onto the sheet. I've got a button I can press to toggle between the two representations, and the repcontrol buttons will be display: none on the skills-cb view. It's working great so far.

Is this actually a bad idea? I'm trying to emulate some of the functionality one finds on the D&D 5e sheet (say, with adding new spells).

No, thats a perfect way to use copies of the fieldset. I didnt realise you were toggling their visibility.