Detecting Form Button Pressed In ASP

Skittle · Oct 25, 2002

Hi,

I have a form that accepts parameters of week and year and then actions another page that displays data for the parameters. At the moment the form has a submit and clear button. I would also like to add another submit button that does exactly the same thing as the standard submit button but will have a name and value of 'Excel'.

I then want the page actioned be my form to detect if the user clicked on the 'Excel' button so that I can display the data results in an Excel formated table instead of an html formatted table.

How can I detect if the user submitted the form by hitting the 'Excel' button instead of the other standard 'Submit' button?

GabeC · Oct 25, 2002

Try this code

Code:

<html>
<body>
<%
for each item in Request.Form 
	Response.Write &quot;<b>&quot; & item & &quot;</b>: &quot; & request(item) & &quot;<BR>&quot;
next
%>
<HR>
<form action=TestGabe.asp method=post>
<input type=submit value=HTML name=ShowType id=ShowType><BR>
<input type=submit value=Excel name=ShowType id=ShowType>
</form>
</body>
</html>

You give each submit button a unique value. Then in your asp page you check you check the request object for the different submit button's values. The button that was clicked with have a value passed to your page.

Hope this helps,

Gabe

Skittle · Oct 25, 2002

Thats Great!

Thanks for your help.

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Detecting Form Button Pressed In ASP

Skittle

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GabeC

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Skittle

ISP

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