Jump to named anchor after form processing

[Robert Mark Bram]

Hi All!

Let's say I have a form like this:

<form action="handler.asp"> ... </form>

Within handler.asp, I output a number of named anchors:

<a name="important1">Important 1</a> ...
<a name="important2">Important 2</a> ...
<a name="important3">Important 3</a> ...

In my form processing code, I want the returned page to jump to one of
these anchors depending on the result of the processing.

How can I do this?

I don't want to use a redirection because then I would have to
re-process the same page..

Any advice would be most appreciated!

Rob
:)

[Evertjan.]

Robert Mark Bram wrote on 20 okt 2004 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

Hi All!

Let's say I have a form like this:

<form action="handler.asp"> ... </form>

Within handler.asp, I output a number of named anchors:

<a name="important1">Important 1</a> ...
<a name="important2">Important 2</a> ...
<a name="important3">Important 3</a> ...

In my form processing code, I want the returned page to jump to one of
these anchors depending on the result of the processing.

How can I do this?

I don't want to use a redirection because then I would have to
re-process the same page..

Any advice would be most appreciated!

I would not use a <form> here.

Try:

<a href="#important1">Important 1</a><br>
<a href="#important2">Important 2</a>

and keep the anchors on the same page:

<a name="important1"></a>What is important 1 ...
<a name="important2"></a>What is important 2[too?] ...

The browser cache will not send a request to the server if your asp code
allows a long enough expiry time[-out], say:

<% Response.Expires = 40 %>

[and do not use <base href=> or no-cache meta directives here!]

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Evertjan.
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[Robert Mark Bram]

Hi Evertjan!

Thank you for your response.

I would not use a <form> here.
Hmm... but there is some user input that I need to obtain in order to do
my processing.
Try:

<a href="#important1">Important 1</a><br>
<a href="#important2">Important 2</a>

and keep the anchors on the same page:

<a name="important1"></a>What is important 1 ...
<a name="important2"></a>What is important 2[too?] ...

The browser cache will not send a request to the server if your asp code
allows a long enough expiry time[-out], say:

<% Response.Expires = 40 %>

I don't quite understand what is happenning here. The page blocks for a
while, waiting for some response?

Rob
:)

[Evertjan.]

Robert Mark Bram wrote on 20 okt 2004 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

Hi Evertjan!

Thank you for your response.

I would not use a <form> here.
Hmm... but there is some user input that I need to obtain in order to
do my processing.

then use seperate forms:

<form action="#important1" method=post>
<input your user input for posting
</form>
<form action="#important2" method=post>
<input your user input for posting
</form>

or use clientsied scripting to cange the action string.

OT on this ASP NG!!!

Try:

<a href="#important1">Important 1</a><br>
<a href="#important2">Important 2</a>

and keep the anchors on the same page:

<a name="important1"></a>What is important 1 ...
<a name="important2"></a>What is important 2[too?] ...

The browser cache will not send a request to the server if your asp
code allows a long enough expiry time[-out], say:

<% Response.Expires = 40 %>

I don't quite understand what is happenning here. The page blocks for
a while, waiting for some response?

Its unclear what you mean with "blocks".

Anyway, as it is not an ASP problem, [except for the timeout],
this is OT.

I suggest you ask in a cliendside code NG.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress,
but let us keep the discussions in the newsgroup)