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onclick and assigning variables?

Question posted by: MrGarcia (Newbie) on September 1st, 2006 03:41 PM
I'm trying to create a link which passes variable data to form objects (text), and also submits the form with the onClick method.

In the head I have..

Code: ( text )
  1. function submitter(one,two){
  2.    document.forms[0].emailaddress.value = one;
  3.    document.forms[0].officername.value = two;
  4.    document.forms[0].submit();
  5.    }

then the link is..
Email:
Code: ( text )
  1. <a href="#" onClick = "submitter('none@none.net', 'Joe Schmoe' ); ">Joe Schmoe</a><br>

the problem is that the string 'Joe Schmoe' is not being submitted, I only get the 'Joe' part. Any clues?
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03:05 PM
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Re: onclick and assigning variables?
Perhaps it's the server-side where the problem is.
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May 15th, 2008
03:37 PM
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Re: onclick and assigning variables?
It looks like the space is interrupting the data submission which should not happen on any modern browser. Is this submit by change being defined as a GET instead of a POST? If so inserting a space into a GET HTTP request will interrupt it.

If nothing else works you might try encoding the data before sending it. Google can provide examples of how to do this.
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