[thelist] Can I do this in ASP? Thanks

Warden, Matt mwarden at mattwarden.com
Tue Apr 9 19:51:01 CDT 2002


On Apr 9, Rob Smith had something to say about RE: [thelist] Can I do this...

>--------
><tip>
>Matt, one thing about your article, actually it was quite good and
>informative. I'll pimp your article. Everyone please check out
>http://www.evolt.org/article/Writing_Smart_Web_based_Forms/17/10199/index.ht
>ml for writing good ASP form checking. It was very helpful.
>
>However, in my example I have listed
>
><snip>
><input type="text" name="UserID" size="64"
>value="<%=request.form("UserID")%>"><br>
></snip>
>with emphasis on the "<% = " equal sign. I had just the request.form listed
>and when I "tried" to submit the page, the field wouldn't refill itself. So
>I added the = sign and magic happened.

Yeah. Without the = sign, you're basically saying:

<%
"string"
%>

which doesn't do anything.

in my article, i used the full <%Response.Write request.form("foo")%>
notation. The <%= notation is simply shorthand.

>Also, I added the double quotes
>around the value for value=" stuff ". This allowed values in that field to
>have spaces in the name.

hmmm... was there a place in my article where i didn't do this? if so,
i'll fix it. i can't find where i omitted them, if i did.

anywho, thanks for the pimpage!  :-)

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mattwarden
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