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Prepopulating form field

Greetings.
I know not one word of Javascript and wondered if there was
an easy way to pre-populating a form field in a similar manner to
populating an eMail 'subject' field? -
The following populates the subject field in an eMail:
a href="mailto:me @anwhere.com?su bject=USER ID 12345

How can I populate the first field of a form (or can I?) with the
same information - i.e. the USER ID located on the HTML page
calling the form?

Any help appreciated
Aug 24 '06 #1
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Richard Rosser wrote:
How can I populate the first field of a form (or can I?) with the
same information - i.e. the USER ID located on the HTML page
calling the form?
By setting (probably using some server side script) the value
attribute, the selected attribute, the checked attribute, or the data
contained in the element depending on what type of form control you are
using.

Aug 24 '06 #2

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