Hi,
I have created a form which has a text box and a submit button.... -
<form name="myform" action="new.asp" method="post">
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<input type="text" name="text1" size=20>
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<input type="submit" value="Submit">
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However, I want to hide the name "new.asp" from being displayed when the user clicks view source in the browser. The source code should look like this.. -
<form name="myform" action="" method="post">
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<input type="text" name="text1" size=20>
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<input type="submit" value="Submit">
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Is there any way to hide the action attribute of the form tag? I tried putting the "new.asp" in <% %> delimiters. Though it is hiding the name in the source code, it is not navigating to that asp page.
Hope the problem is clear.. Can someone pleassssse help?
Thanks a lot.
Pradeep.
5  1805  jhardman 3,406
Recognized Expert Specialist
No, please remember that HTML was designed to be visible, so any user could see the code behind. There are a couple tricks you could use to make it less clear, you could use javascript to fill in the action attribute after the page is loaded for example. You could also have the action go to one page, but then redirect to another page which actually handles the form. Or you could have the form handler be in some sort of "include" code, it is never shown where the include code comes from. Let me know if this helps.
Jared
No, please remember that HTML was designed to be visible, so any user could see the code behind. There are a couple tricks you could use to make it less clear, you could use javascript to fill in the action attribute after the page is loaded for example. You could also have the action go to one page, but then redirect to another page which actually handles the form. Or you could have the form handler be in some sort of "include" code, it is never shown where the include code comes from. Let me know if this helps.
Jared
Hey
The idea of putting one page in the action attribute and then redirecting to other page is fine.. Thanks.. But, see this page and the source code. How come they have managed to hide the action attribute? http://www.iimi-iris.com/iris-2007/i...eless3/666.asp
This page is part of a puzzle in which the page navigates to the next page only if you enter the correct answer.. Please have a look at the action attribute in the src code.
The reason why you are not seeing the ACTION tag page name is because they post the page to itself. It then does the processing of your answer and redirects you to whereever you need to go.
You can also try implementing some JavaScript functions and hide the action tag someplace else in the script, but I don't think there is a way to completely hide it.
jhardman 3,406
Recognized Expert Specialist
devguy is right. I like to explicitly state that attribute regardless, but if you don't specify an action, it just posts to the same page. Notice, that approach is very similar to what I suggested: post to one page and then redirect.
Jared
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