[thelist] form not passing variables if focus is in input box

[Jerry Scannell]

Dunston,

I went to the site but am unable to view source.  Can you make the code
available so we can check it?

Jerry


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dunstan Orchard" <dunstan at 1976design.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 9:23 AM
Subject: [thelist] form not passing variables if focus is in input box


> Hi there,
>
> well here's an odd one.
>
> I have this test form:
> http://www.1976design.com/testarea/photo/search2.php?
>
> It seems to work perfectly except for when you do this:
>
> If the focus/cursor is IN the 'search terms' input box and you hit RETURN
to
> submit the form, none of the form variables beyond $searchterms are
passed.
> And I don't just mean that they arrive at the results page empty, I mean
they
> are simply not passed on from the form. At all.
>
> There's logic in the results page to deal with empty variable values, but
not
> if the variable doesn't exist, so the errors appear.
>
>
> It doesn't matter if you've put in no values or filled out the entire
form, if
> you then return focus to the 'search terms' input box and hit RETURN the
> variables beyond $searchterms are just not passed in the URL (I've made
the
> form GET so you can see the varibles in the URL).
>
>
> Any ideas why this is happening and what I can do to stop it?
>
>
> Thanks very much - dunstan
>
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