HTML Form Initialization

[Jon Kane]

I do not know if this is possible or not. I haven't been able to do it yet.
I'd like to have a web page with a list of like 50 links. After clicking on
a link it opens another web page (same page for all links) that has a form
with a textbox containing the text of the link clicked on from the previous
web page. I hope this makes sense. If this is possible I'd appreciate some
help accomplishing it. Thanks.

[Jim Dabell]

Jon Kane wrote:

I'd like to have a web page with a list of like 50 links. After clicking
on a link it opens another web page (same page for all links) that has a
form with a textbox containing the text of the link clicked on from the
previous web page.

You can do it unreliably with Javascript, or reliably with a server-side
script, such as PHP. For example:

index.html:

[...]
<li><a href="process.php?text=Link%20One">Link One</a></li>
<li><a href="process.php?text=Link%20Two">Link Two</a></li>
<li><a href="process.php?text=Link%20Three">Link Three</a></li>
[...]

process.php:

[...]
<input type="text" name="..."
value="<?php echo(htmlentities($_REQUEST['text'])); ?>">
[...]

For more information:

<URL:news:comp.lang.php>
<URL:http://www.php.net/>
<URL:news:comp.lang.javascript>

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Jim Dabell