[thelist] Passing & thru a form using ASP

[Craig]

That's just it, if you view-source you don't see the '&'  just the '&'.

Craig.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Blessing" <webguy at mail.rit.edu>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:20 AM
Subject: RE: [thelist] Passing &amp; thru a form using ASP


> Craig, are you checking the submitted data via a response.write?  If so,
> your browser will interpret &amp; as just the "&" character.  If you view
> the source you should see "&amp;".
>
> Chris Blessing
> webguy at mail.rit.edu
> http://www.330i.net
>
> > note: remove the first dot after <
> >
> > <.!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> > <.html>
> > <.head>
> > <.title>Untitled Document<./title>
> > <.meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
> > <./head>
> >
> > <.body>
> > <.form action="test2.asp" method="post">
> > <.input type="text" value="&amp;" name="testtext">
> > <.input type="submit" value="submit">
> > <./form>
> > <%=request.form("testtext")%>
> > <./body>
> > <./html>
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Craig.
>
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