[thelist] Brain fart html w/asp (revisited)

Fri Apr 26 11:18:01 CDT 2002

Your sub saveArticle() lives on the server.  Your onClick="saveArticle()"
lives on the client browser.  They don't know about each other.  You get
that error because IE says, "there's no client-side JavaScript or VBScript
function called "saveArticle()".  I don't know what you're talking about."

You would actually have to have a form POST (or GET) to do what you're
after.

Like:

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT"%>
<%
If Request.Form("Save") = "Save and Exit" Then
	' We got a post
	saveArticle
Else

End If

Sub saveArticle()
	Dim stuff, stuff_1, stuff_2
	'rest is commented out
	Response.Write("<p>Sub saveArticle() was called.</p>")
End Sub

%>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<form method="POST" name="frmSaveArticle">
   <input type="submit" name="Save" value="Save and Exit" />
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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From: Rob Smith [mailto:rob.smith at thermon.com]
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:10 AM
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Subject: [thelist] Brain fart html w/asp (revisited)

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Hi

This about calling ASP 2.0 functions from html forms...again.

Here's what I have

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT"%>
<%
sub saveArticle()
	dim stuff, stuff_1, stuff_2
	'rest is commented out
end sub
%>

...

<form>
   <input type="button" name="Save" value="Save and Exit"
onClick="saveArticle()"> </form

When I try to click on the button in the web browser, IE5(? matters not)
throws an error: "Object expected"

What could possibly be wrong with this? missing anything?

Thanks in advance,

Rob

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