Need help in formulating a HREF link

Jack · Jan 7, 2005

Hi,
I am trying to get a printer.asp page linked back to a main report page.
However, in the final url, the grantid is missing which should not be, if the
href statement is correct. I checked the correct value of grantid via
response.write and I can see the correct value. However, the href statement
cannot pick the value properly. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
CODE:
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0">
</HEAD>
<BODY text = "red">
<center>


Printable.asp page 
This page is under construction. 
<%
GrantID = Session("sess_GrantID")
Response.Write " "
Response.Write GrantID & " "
Response.Write "<A HREF=""mainreportagain1.asp?GrantID="" & GrantID>Click to
return to main report page</A>"
%>

</center>
</BODY>
</HTML>

THE url of the clicked to e is:

http://localhost/gwisbrandnewready3/mainreportagain1.asp?GrantID=

while the correct url of the clicked to page will be:

http://localhost/gwisbrandnewready3/mainreportagain1.asp?GrantID=5718

Aaron [SQL Server MVP] · Jan 7, 2005

Response.Write said:
return to main report page</A>"

How about:

Response.Write "<A HREF=mainreportagain1.asp?GrantID=" & GrantID & ">Click
to return to main report page</A>

Leave out the double-double quotes unless they are actually necessary; all
they seem to do is add confusion. If you really think you need quotes
there, then use single quotes:

Response.Write "<A HREF='mainreportagain1.asp?GrantID=" & GrantID & "'>Click
to return to main report page</A>

Then you don't have to escape them, and it's a little clearer which quotes
are which, IMHO.

Ray Costanzo [MVP] · Jan 7, 2005

This code should not be able to run without error. Actually, it probably
is, but your error string is in the href attribute property, so you're not
seeing. A view source would probably reveal something like:

<A HREF="mainreportagain1.asp?GrantID=---------------------------
....
Error: Expected end of statement
Code: 800A0401
....

You need to put strings in quotes, or just stop response.writing everything.

Response.Write "<A HREF=""mainreportagain1.asp?GrantID="" & GrantID &
""">Click to
return to main report page</A>"

or
%>
<a href="mainreportagain1.asp?grantid=<%=GrantID%>">Click to return to main
report page</a>

Aaron [SQL Server MVP] · Jan 7, 2005

No, you're missing a double-quote (count them up!). I get:

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0401'
Expected end of statement

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Jack · Jan 7, 2005

Thanks to Aaaron, Ray and Curt for each of the wonderful advise. I am going
to check each of those out now. Regards to everybody.

Jack · Jan 7, 2005

I applied Ray's second method:
<a href="mainreportagain1.asp?grantid=<%=GrantID%>">Click to return to main
report page</a>
and it works fine now. Regards.

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Need help in formulating a HREF link

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