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Passing values of in an form

Hello everyone, I know your busy and this is probably not hard but I am not sure why it isn't working. IF i have a dropdown box or input box an asp form and when I click on the submit I am opening another window up with another asp form to fill out more information. I need to pass that dropdown and input box information from my first form to my second form. How do I do that. I am not sure.

venkateshwarr

If your dropdown is ddown, and your parent form has a hidden form element...
you can say

parent.forms[0].formvar.value=document.forms[0].ddown.value;

dlzone

= Main.asp =

<html>
<body>
<form action = "dothings.asp" method = "post">
<select name = "stuff">
<option value = "A" >A</option>
<option value = "B" >B</option>
</select>
<input type = "text" name = "stuff2">
</form>
</body>
</html>

=dothings.asp=

<%

strStuff = Request.Form("stuff")
strStuff2 = Request.Form("stuff2")

%>

anderson22

Is the second window a popup? If not, you can just change the target of the form to "_blank" and this will send the form data to the second window. At that point, you can use the ASP Request object to access the data.

-rca

D_basham

ASKER

Thanks for the help. It still not giving me the info. Maybe it is my submit button code. This is what I have

onClick="window.open('SoftwareRequest.asp','InfoFrame','resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,menubar=yes, top=5, width=550%, height=550, left=2');">

Am i missing something. I already tried the 'SoftwareRequest.asp'?<%Department=<% response.write ("Department")%> It just returned the literal. Thanks

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D_basham

ASKER

Thanks that worked Perfectly. :)