FORMs in ASP.NET Apps

[WiseNewbie]

Hi,

Is this a bug or is this normal? I cannot use forms in ASP.NET Applications because of the initial form tag? I want to enable a search site area on each page(in hte footer.ascx file) and while i can include it, when i submit it the page doesnt do anything(post information out)

What can i do to avoid this?

 

[crazyboybert]

Hi Wise

Not sure what you mean here? You can only have one server form in an asp.net page. This is a limitation of the current veriosn of ASP.NET

By server form I mean a HTML form tag with the attribute runat="server" e.g.

<form id=&quot;MyForm&quot; runat=&quot;server&quot;>

You can howver add additonal client forms to add search style functionality to your footer. if you have a form tag like this..

<form id=&quot;SearchForm&quot; action=&quot;search.aspx&quot; method=&quot;POST&quot;>
<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;searchterm&quot; />
<input type=&quot;submit&quot; />
</form>

included in your page. When the submit button is clicked it will have the effect of posting your form to the recieving page specified in the action as on a standard web page.

You can capture the form data using

Request.Form["searchterm"]

in your code-behind for the search page and do your processing to return a result set...

Hope this helps

Rob

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