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Hi Richard. You've helped me out in the past so I thought I'd present you
with the latest problem that we can't seem to fix.
Consider an ASP page with a form that has a few text fields... name,
address, comments etc. The page posts to itself so we have the usual line
that says:
If Request.ServerVariables("REQUEST_METHOD") = "POST" Then
If the users input passes various validations we write it to a database and
display a thank you message below the form. The problem is when a validation
fails. When that happens we display a sorry, try again kind of message, but
the problem is that the page refreshes and the users data that they typed in
is cleared form the text boxes. We want the data to persist until the form
is successfully submitted, then it can clear (because this is what a user
expects when the form is submitted. If the data persisted after success,
they would get confused and probably resubmit it)
We've tried different functions in conjunction with setting the default
value of the text boxes to:
<%= Request.Form("textboxname") %>, but the best we can get is for the data
to persist, regardless of whether the submission is good or not.
Is there anything clever you can come up with? If I have to I can put an
example on the web.
Thank you!
with the latest problem that we can't seem to fix.
Consider an ASP page with a form that has a few text fields... name,
address, comments etc. The page posts to itself so we have the usual line
that says:
If Request.ServerVariables("REQUEST_METHOD") = "POST" Then
If the users input passes various validations we write it to a database and
display a thank you message below the form. The problem is when a validation
fails. When that happens we display a sorry, try again kind of message, but
the problem is that the page refreshes and the users data that they typed in
is cleared form the text boxes. We want the data to persist until the form
is successfully submitted, then it can clear (because this is what a user
expects when the form is submitted. If the data persisted after success,
they would get confused and probably resubmit it)
We've tried different functions in conjunction with setting the default
value of the text boxes to:
<%= Request.Form("textboxname") %>, but the best we can get is for the data
to persist, regardless of whether the submission is good or not.
Is there anything clever you can come up with? If I have to I can put an
example on the web.
Thank you!
