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Retaining textbox values on screen 1

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newprogrammer999

newprogrammer999

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Aug 28, 2002
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Hi all,
I have an asp page that has the following structure:

<html>
form action = &quot;&quot;
some html code to draw textboxes and a button &quot;create&quot;
<% if action = &quot;create&quot;
....
make new button &quot;DoThis&quot;
elseif action = &quot;DoThis&quot;
do some actions
end if
%>

My problenm is that when i fill in the textboxes and then press the create button the values in the textboxes become blank. I have tried using sesion valiables to assign values to the textboxes but it just draws new textboxes whith the values inside them. A friend also suguested something like:
If(&quot;Page.IsPostBack&quot;) Then
but I think this is only a .net feature??

Basically my problem is that i want to do some action on the page and keep the current values in the textboxes. It seems simple but I still can't manage it! Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Regards,
benny
 
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If you are trying to create more form objects then use client-side javascript and the DOM. Otherwise you need to write servers-side code to repopulate them or client-side cookies to hold and repopulate them. EIther way, it's tedious.

What are you creating?

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build better and bigger idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rich Cook
 
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At the moment I have a form for the user to fill in with textboxes. There are 2 action buttons on the form and at the moment when the first one is pressed all the values the user has filled in go blank although they are still required. I have tried assign the values in the textboxes to session variables i.e.
Session(&quot;textValue&quot;) = Request(&quot;textbox1)

and later in the code
textbox1.vaule = Session(&quot;textValue&quot;)

but this just draws a second textbox called textbox1
 
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I'm still not sure what you are trying to do on the page. What do the action buttons do? can you post your code?

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build better and bigger idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rich Cook
 
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Heres the guts of it - its pretty long over all but this should show what I am doing a bit better.

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%Response.Buffer=True%>

<title>Create Formulation</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 align=&quot;center&quot;>Create Formulation</h1>
<Form method=&quot;post&quot; action=&quot;&quot;>
 
 
 
<table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;10&quot;>
<tr>
<td>Formulation name:</td>
<td><input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;formulationname&quot;></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type=&quot;submit&quot; name=&quot;action&quot; value = &quot;Select&quot;></td>

<%
if request(&quot;action&quot;)=&quot;Select FeedStuff&quot; then
Do some actions and
Response.Write (&quot;<input type=&quot;&quot;submit&quot;&quot; name=&quot;&quot;action&quot;&quot; value=&quot;&quot;Calculate&quot;&quot;>&quot;)
else if request(&quot;action&quot;)=&quot;Calculate&quot; Then
do some other actions
end if
%>
</html>



When the Select button is pressed then the value that has been entered in formulationname goes blank. All I want to be able to do is enter a value in to formulationname at the start and the value to remain there when the select button is pressed.

Thanks for the help,
benny
 
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Is this what you need?

<td><input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;formulationname&quot; value=&quot;<%=request(&quot;formulationname&quot;)%>&quot;></td>

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build better and bigger idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rich Cook
 
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Thanks, ur a legend!

I knew it was only something simple.

Thanks again,

benny
 
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