how to click and capture text

[dragon52]

Hi,

I am displaying a table of records, one column is the student id. What html code do I need to allow user to select a student record by a click of a student id. In other words how do I make the id column clickable and at the same time capture the id number so I can process and display that student's details?

Thanks

[drhowarddrfine]

It depends on how the records are displayed. You can just make the record an anchor with the id as part of the href.

<a href="example.com/mypage?record=12345">ID12345</a>
 
or
 
<a href="example.com/mypage/record/12345>ID12345</a>

[dragon52]

Thanks drhowarddrfine,

It is now clickable but..

How do I click to refresh the same page to display student details?

What code do I use to get hold of the student id?

Here is my code

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo "<tr><td>";
echo "<a href='example.com/mypage?record=".$row['StudentID']."'>".$row['StudentID']."</a>";
echo "</td><td>"."-".$row['FamilyName'].", ".$row['GivenNames']."</td></tr>";
}
 
 

[drhowarddrfine]

Wrong board. Need to ask that question in that language's forum.

[dragon52]

drhowarddrfine,

My previous sample code uses php to output html. However, my question still relates to html. What should the 'href=' statement look like to refresh the same page rather than jumping to another page? Also I need to grap the student id when clicked so that I can look up that record in the db. The 'record' bit in 'href=...record=xyz' is where I can find the id? How should I write that html code?

Can you help??


Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.

[drhowarddrfine]

HTML can't do any of that.

[dragon52]

Ok, I will try my luck in the php forum.

Thanks drhowarddrfine