Form field

[aarellano]

I have a form that is submited asking for order numbers

My field looks like this

<input type="text" name="ORD" value="" size="32">

the problem that I am having is that people need to enter a letter before the number. The letter is always the same, will never change. Some people forget to type the letter and when trying to find the data we run into problems. So is there a way to add the letter to the input?
so when the user types "12345"
it will insert "S12345

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I'd do this server-side. Test to see if char 1 isn't 0-9, and if not, add the char in.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[aarellano]

would that be like a script?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

It would be whatever your server-side technology is (i.e. whatever you are submitting your form to).

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[vacunita]

Agreed its simple to do in whichever server side script your are using. Exactly what server side language are you submitting the form to?

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[aarellano]

asp

so would something like this work

<input type="text" name="ORD" value="" size="32"<%if rs.in("ord").value between 0,9 then response.write(S(rs.in'ord'))%>>

 

[vacunita]

Don't know, ASP is not my strong point, and of course this is now outside the scope of this forum. You might want to ask this in the ASP forum here: forum333



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[aarellano]

sorry about that did not mean to post something in the wrong place. I will move to the forum333: Microsoft: Active Server Pages (ASP)

thank you for all the help, I have a better idea in what to do

 

[ChrisHunt]

If all your order numbers start with an S, I suggest you do it the other way round and suggest users type in just the number bit. Why get them to waste time typing this unnecessary character?

Either way, though, the solution is the same - check server-side for the S and add it if it's missing.

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