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webgyrl Posts: 52 Joined: 2/9/2009 Status: offline	Prepopulating a form - 10/28/2009 18:54:27 I am trying to allow my users to search for a company and once they find it be able to select it and it takes them to a form where it is prepopulated with name of the company so they can rate them instead of having to enter the name manually...using asp and frontpage...help


TexasWebDevelopers Posts: 722 Joined: 2/22/2002 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	RE: Prepopulating a form - 10/29/2009 9:29:07 Pass the company name as a hidden variable to the next page and then stick it into the value bit of the form text box. Here is a primer on passing variables from page to page with code... http://www.texaswebdevelopers.com/examples/passingvariables/ _____________________________ Follow us on TWITTER (in reply to webgyrl)


bobby Posts: 11479 Joined: 8/15/1969 From: Seattle WA USA Status: offline	RE: Prepopulating a form - 10/29/2009 15:35:27 TWD, what a great primer / example of how to do exactly what they asked. Nice tidbit! The other part of the equation here is how they select a company from a list... the easiest way is to make each search result a link containing the company name as a variable passed to the next page... something like: <a href="page.asp?coname=COMPANY" >COMPANY</a> Then you can populate the form field with the variable "coname" on page.asp It is not hidden, but then again your visitor is selecting the company name from a list so who cares if they can see it in the URL? Just another way to pass the data once selected... _____________________________ Talk to your kittens about catnip, or someone else will. (in reply to TexasWebDevelopers)