Easy question - Trouble with Request.Form

[Rabel]

I am new to asp and I am having a little trouble with the Request.form
option. What I want to do is I have a dropdown box.

<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter">
<option value="page1.htm" selected>Page 1</option>
<option value="page2.htm">Page 2</option>
<option value="page3.htm">Page 3</option>
</select>

and I want to use a button that then will take you to the page you
selected so I have been trying codes like this.

<a href="<%= Request.Form("selecter") %>" ><img src="submit.jpg"
width="45" height="18" border="0"></a>

Any idea what I am doing wrong, any help is apprieciated.

Thanks,
Randy

[Marc]

"Rabel" <Ra***@Creativeness.comwrote in message
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>I am new to asp and I am having a little trouble with the Request.form
option. What I want to do is I have a dropdown box.

<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter">
<option value="page1.htm" selected>Page 1</option>
<option value="page2.htm">Page 2</option>
<option value="page3.htm">Page 3</option>
</select>

and I want to use a button that then will take you to the page you
selected so I have been trying codes like this.

<a href="<%= Request.Form("selecter") %>" ><img src="submit.jpg"
width="45" height="18" border="0"></a>

Any idea what I am doing wrong, any help is apprieciated.

Thanks,
Randy

I think you want to try javascript for that but...
<%
Response.Redirect(Request.Form("selecter"))
%>

[Marc]

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"Rabel" <Ra***@Creativeness.comwrote in message
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>>I am new to asp and I am having a little trouble with the Request.form
option. What I want to do is I have a dropdown box.

<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter">
<option value="page1.htm" selected>Page 1</option>
<option value="page2.htm">Page 2</option>
<option value="page3.htm">Page 3</option>
</select>

and I want to use a button that then will take you to the page you
selected so I have been trying codes like this.

<a href="<%= Request.Form("selecter") %>" ><img src="submit.jpg"
width="45" height="18" border="0"></a>

Any idea what I am doing wrong, any help is apprieciated.

Thanks,
Randy

I think you want to try javascript for that but...
<%
Response.Redirect(Request.Form("selecter"))
%>

I can't help myself:

<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter"
onchange="if(this.selectedIndex>0)document.locatio n.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value">
<option value="" selected>Select page</option>
<option value="page1.htm">Page 1</option>
<option value="page2.htm">Page 2</option>
<option value="page3.htm">Page 3</option>
</select>

Make sure the "onchange" bit until the ">" is on one line!

[Rabel]

On Apr 4, 1:08 pm, "Marc" <[e-mail]:

"Marc" <[e-mail] in message

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"Rabel" <[e-mail] in message
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>I am new to asp and I am having a little trouble with the Request.form
option. What I want to do is I have a dropdown box.

<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter">
<option value="page1.htm" selected>Page 1</option>
<option value="page2.htm">Page 2</option>
<option value="page3.htm">Page 3</option>
</select>

and I want to use a button that then will take you to the page you
selected so I have been trying codes like this.

<a href="<%= Request.Form("selecter") %>" ><img src="submit.jpg"
width="45" height="18" border="0"></a>

Any idea what I am doing wrong, any help is apprieciated.

Thanks,
Randy

I think you want to try javascript for that but...

<%
Response.Redirect(Request.Form("selecter"))
%>

I can't help myself:

<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter"
onchange="if(this.selectedIndex>0)document.locatio n.href=this.options[this.*selectedIndex].value">
<option value="" selected>Select page</option>
<option value="page1.htm">Page 1</option>
<option value="page2.htm">Page 2</option>
<option value="page3.htm">Page 3</option>
</select>

Make sure the "onchange" bit until the ">" is on one line!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Thanks Marc - but is there a way that I can still use a button then
just when you select from the box.

Thanks

[Jon Paal [MSMD]]

You need to have a default value for your link until the user makes a selection

and

-- you either need an autopostabck on your selector which will then change the link value

or

-- you need to use javascript to change the link value based upon the user selection.



"Rabel" <Ra***@Creativeness.comwrote in message news:11*********************@w1g2000hsg.googlegrou ps.com...

>I am new to asp and I am having a little trouble with the Request.form
option. What I want to do is I have a dropdown box.

<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter">
<option value="page1.htm" selected>Page 1</option>
<option value="page2.htm">Page 2</option>
<option value="page3.htm">Page 3</option>
</select>

and I want to use a button that then will take you to the page you
selected so I have been trying codes like this.

<a href="<%= Request.Form("selecter") %>" ><img src="submit.jpg"
width="45" height="18" border="0"></a>

Any idea what I am doing wrong, any help is apprieciated.

Thanks,
Randy

[Rabel]

On Apr 4, 3:02 pm, "Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon nospam Paal @ everywhere dot
comwrote:

You need to have a default value for your link until the user makes a selection

and

-- you either need an autopostabck on your selector which will then change the link value

or

-- you need to use javascript to change the link value based upon the user selection.

"Rabel" <[e-mail] in messagenews:11*********************@w1g2000hsg.goo glegroups.com...

I am new to asp and I am having a little trouble with the Request.form
option. What I want to do is I have a dropdown box.

<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter">
<option value="page1.htm" selected>Page 1</option>
<option value="page2.htm">Page 2</option>
<option value="page3.htm">Page 3</option>
</select>

and I want to use a button that then will take you to the page you
selected so I have been trying codes like this.

<a href="<%= Request.Form("selecter") %>" ><img src="submit.jpg"
width="45" height="18" border="0"></a>

Any idea what I am doing wrong, any help is apprieciated.

Thanks,
Randy- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Thanks Jon but I dont really understand what you mean - I think that
you are describing Marc's js version which I am using but I would
still like to have a button make it go to the next page, not just when
you select a option in the dropdown box.

[Tim Slattery]

"Rabel" <Ra***@Creativeness.comwrote:

>I am new to asp and I am having a little trouble with the Request.form
option. What I want to do is I have a dropdown box.

<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter">
<option value="page1.htm" selected>Page 1</option>
<option value="page2.htm">Page 2</option>
<option value="page3.htm">Page 3</option>
</select>

and I want to use a button that then will take you to the page you
selected so I have been trying codes like this.

<a href="<%= Request.Form("selecter") %>" ><img src="submit.jpg"
width="45" height="18" border="0"></a>

Looks OK at a glance. In order to use Request.Form, your form has to
have been POSTed, you cannot use method="get" if you're going to use
that. If you want that link to be in the same page as the select
group, then you have to rethink what you're doing. ASP is a
server-side platform, and the <%= tag in the <a href= HTML tag won't
work unless the form has been submitted and you're building a new
page.

It can be done in the same page, but it's done using client-side
Javascript (use a handler for the onChange event in the select group).
That being the case, it's off-topic in this group.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Sl********@bls.gov
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

[Jon Paal [MSMD]]

I guess it's not clear what you are trying to accomplish.

if you want the dropdownlist to send the user to another page, then on the post back, use

if len(Request.Form("selecter")) 0 then
Response.Redirect(Request.Form("selecter"))
end if
if you want to populate the clientside anchor to give the user a button, then use javascript to get the selected value from the
dropdownlist through the onchange event.


"Rabel" <Ra***@Creativeness.comwrote in message news:11**********************@n59g2000hsh.googlegr oups.com...

On Apr 4, 3:02 pm, "Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon nospam Paal @ everywhere dot
comwrote:

>You need to have a default value for your link until the user makes a selection

and

-- you either need an autopostabck on your selector which will then change the link value

or

-- you need to use javascript to change the link value based upon the user selection.

"Rabel" <[e-mail] in messagenews:11*********************@w1g2000hsg.goo glegroups.com...

>I am new to asp and I am having a little trouble with the Request.form
option. What I want to do is I have a dropdown box.

<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter">
<option value="page1.htm" selected>Page 1</option>
<option value="page2.htm">Page 2</option>
<option value="page3.htm">Page 3</option>
</select>

and I want to use a button that then will take you to the page you
selected so I have been trying codes like this.

<a href="<%= Request.Form("selecter") %>" ><img src="submit.jpg"
width="45" height="18" border="0"></a>

Any idea what I am doing wrong, any help is apprieciated.

Thanks,
Randy- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Thanks Jon but I dont really understand what you mean - I think that
you are describing Marc's js version which I am using but I would
still like to have a button make it go to the next page, not just when
you select a option in the dropdown box.

[Marc]

"Rabel" <Ra***@Creativeness.comwrote in message
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On Apr 4, 1:08 pm, "Marc" <[e-mail]:

"Marc" <[e-mail] in message

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"Rabel" <[e-mail] in message
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>I am new to asp and I am having a little trouble with the Request.form
option. What I want to do is I have a dropdown box.

<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter">
<option value="page1.htm" selected>Page 1</option>
<option value="page2.htm">Page 2</option>
<option value="page3.htm">Page 3</option>
</select>

and I want to use a button that then will take you to the page you
selected so I have been trying codes like this.

<a href="<%= Request.Form("selecter") %>" ><img src="submit.jpg"
width="45" height="18" border="0"></a>

Any idea what I am doing wrong, any help is apprieciated.

Thanks,
Randy

I think you want to try javascript for that but...

<%
Response.Redirect(Request.Form("selecter"))
%>

I can't help myself:

<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter"
onchange="if(this.selectedIndex>0)document.locatio n.href=this.options[this.*selectedIndex].value">
<option value="" selected>Select page</option>
<option value="page1.htm">Page 1</option>
<option value="page2.htm">Page 2</option>
<option value="page3.htm">Page 3</option>
</select>

Make sure the "onchange" bit until the ">" is on one line!- Hide quoted
text -

- Show quoted text -

Thanks Marc - but is there a way that I can still use a button then
just when you select from the box.

Thanks
sure, but remember... this isn't a javascript group.

<form name="frm">
<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter">
<option value="page1.htm">Page 1</option>
<option value="page2.htm">Page 2</option>
<option value="page3.htm">Page 3</option>
</select>
<input type="button" value="go there"
onclick="document.location.href=document.frm.selec ter.options[document.frm.selecter.selectedIndex].value"
/>
</form>