have two things happend after the submit button is pressed

junkmail · Aug 30, 2001

Hi,

I would like to know if it is possible to have two different actions take place after the submit button is pressed? First I want the info to be sent to the server and then I want to go to another reference(meaning I want to have a different page appear). If I put two different Method="post" in my code the only one that happens is the one that is physically first in my code. I am new at this so can you be specific with your answer?

Thanks
Frank

wood · Aug 30, 2001

<form name="myForm" method="post" action="page.htm">
...form stuff...
</form>

this submits the info to the server when the user clicks the submit button, then goes to the page specified in the action parameter.

yandso · Aug 30, 2001

You might want to try this.

<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function goHere(){
self.location="page.html";
}
</script>
<body>
<form name=form method="post" action="wheretosend" onSubmit="goHere()">

</form>

The action will send the data to where you want it to go and the javascript will redirect them to you second page.

Roj

tsdragon · Aug 30, 2001

You could also have the program the data is sent to print out a location header. In perl it would look like this:

Code:

print &quot;Location: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.somewhere.com/somepage.html\n\n&quot;;[/URL]

Make sure it's the only thing you print, and make sure there is a blank line printed after it. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

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