[thelist] Passing & thru a form using ASP

.jeff jeff at members.evolt.org
Wed Aug 14 16:11:10 CDT 2002


craig,

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> From: Craig
>
> Hi, does anyone know why the ASP code below doesn't
> pass the string '&amp;' thru when submitting the form.
> Even though '&amp;' is the value for the text field,
> only '&' gets submitted
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this is not a server-side problem, but a problem with how browsers treat encoded characters in form elements.  take a look at this to see the problem and the solution:

<http://members.evolt.org/jeff/code/character_converting_textarea.cfm>

.jeff

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