Adding a bookmark to a form submission 1

[audiopro]

I am familiar with appending a bookmark to a URL to direct a browser to an area of the page.

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mysite.co.uk/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi?pocode=ABC[/URL] 123#baskit

Is it possible to get the same functionality from a form submission?

I tried adding the bookmark as a hidden var but the browser changes the hash is to it's character number (%23) and treats the bookmark as simple text.

<form action = 'audio2u.cgi'>
<input type='text' name='pocode' value=''>
<input type='submit' name='call' value='Change Postcode'>
[COLOR=#EF2929]<input type='hidden' name = 'lnk' value='#baskit'>[/color]
</form>

Keith

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[ChrisHirst]

The browser isn't changing it, the HTTP request mechanism is. Your server side code needs to convert the URLEncoded characters as it concatenates the final URL.

The space in "Change Postcode" will be changing to a %20 as well,

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[audiopro]

Thanks Chris
I am not sure how to do that as the final URL is only created when the form is submitted. How do I interrupt that process?



Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[vacunita]

Why not just add it directly to the form's action.

<form action = 'audio2u.cgi#baskit'>

That is assuming that audio2u.cgi generates a valid html page. With an anchor named baskit somewhere in it.

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[ChrisHirst]

Does this mean that YOU added the hidden field (not just the value) to the form expecting it to do something??

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[audiopro]

Thanks Phil, that's the answer, why didn't I think of that - doh!

Chris, it was experiment time.
Adding the hidden field put the value on the end of the query string but of course, as you said, it needed to be URL encoded. Putting #baskit on the end of the query string triggers the bookmark.

The answer was quite obvious in the end.

Thanks guys.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk