My code is doing something strange...

[marmablue]

I'm by no means experienced at JS programming, and I worked out this script to combine the contents of three form elements and send the combined result to a CGI script. The only problem is, instead of putting spaces in between the terms like it was supposed to, it puts + signs between them. Can anybody help?

The code is this:

<script language=&quot;JavaScript&quot;><!--
function textBuild() {
document.search.searchstring.value = document.search.elements[1].value+' '+document.search.elements[2].value+' '+document.search.elements[3].value
}
//--></script>
<form name=&quot;search&quot; action=&quot;

http://www.marmablue777.f2s.com/insanity/quotescript/viewnews.cgi?search&quot;

onSubmit=&quot;textBuild()&quot; target=&quot;view&quot;>
<input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;searchstring&quot;>
<input type=&quot;text&quot;><input type=&quot;text&quot;><input type=&quot;text&quot;><input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Search&quot; target=&quot;view&quot;>

So, for example, if the word &quot;fish&quot; was typed into all three search boxes, I want the string returned to be &quot;fish fish fish&quot;, whereas it comes out as &quot;fish+fish+fish&quot;.

Can anybody help?
Thank you,
Ian
moonshadow@talk21.com

 

[Bentley22]

document.search.searchstring.value = document.search.elements[1].value+' '+document.search.elements[2].value+' '+document.search.elements[3].value

switch it to:

document.search.searchstring.value = document.search.elements[1].value' + 'document.search.elements[2].value' + 'document.search.elements[3].value

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[tsdragon]

If you're talking about what the searchstring looks like when you get it, a plus sign IS a space. That's part of the method of encoding urls so that special characters, like spaces, can be sent. You need to DEcode the url after you get it. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

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