how to retain values after submit

[Dirk]

I have a search page where you can fill in a search text and have som
options to specify your search.

after submit I want that the user's input (before submit) is bein
shown. Currently, after each submit the values are set back t
default.

how can i do this

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[eivind]

Re: how to retain values after submit

is the page submitting to itself or to a new page with the exact same form?
an url to the page with the problem would help :)
anywayi would do it something like this:

<input name="whatever" value="<%= request.form("w hatever") %>">

using VBscript



Dirk <Dirk.101own@ma il.forum4design ers.com> wrote in message news:<Dirk.101o wn@mail.forum4d esigners.com>.. .[color=blue]
> I have a search page where you can fill in a search text and have some
> options to specify your search.
>
> after submit I want that the user's input (before submit) is being
> shown. Currently, after each submit the values are set back to
> default.
>
> how can i do this?
>
>
> Dirk
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[Dirk]

Re: how to retain values after submit


the page is submitting to itself. I could use the server side of course
but maybe there is a simple solution using javascript?

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[Michael Winter]

Re: how to retain values after submit

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:36:15 -0600, Dirk
<Dirk.103mcq@ma il.forum4design ers.com> wrote:
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> the page is submitting to itself. I could use the server side of course,
> but maybe there is a simple solution using javascript?![/color]

If you can you server-side scripting, that would be your best course of
action - it would always work, then.

With JavaScript, you could only populate the controls:

1) If JavaScript is enabled, and
2) If the form was submitted using the GET method.

If the form was submitted using POST, there is no way for JavaScript to
access the values. With GET, it is just a simple matter of parsing the URL
parameters.

Mike

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