I've created a form with hidden fields to pass data to another form. Moving between forms is accomplished via standard HTML hyperlinks (<a href>) which passes an additional querystring. The called page reads the querystring just fine, but seems unable to find values in any of the hidden fields even though I can see them within the FORM tags in the calling page source.

What do I need to do to get the called form to see the calling form's fields?

There are two main ways to share data between pages, the first is POST - a form with fields - the second is GET - using the QueryString. What you are trying to do is use them both at the same time.

See http://www.asp101.com/samples/getpost.asp for an example of each.

hello Ron Howerton,
I think you can get the value without using submit button or an image script
please use a button...a href won't work for this perpose...

surendran
(Anything is Possible)

Well, I really wanted to use form fields, so I'd be happy to ditch the querystring if that would make this work. But I also need to use HTML links and not ASP buttons and it looks like links won't post form fields no matter what I need.

So I've implemented the necessary functionality using a querystring. It's not my solution of choice, resulting not only in excessively long querystrings that cannot be sent unbroken in email (an issue I will have to deal with next as a result), but also in longer HTML files (carrying multiple long links containing mostly redundant information), but there seems to be no avoiding this work around. The querystring gets through when the link is clicked and form fields do not. I can only hope it does not exceed the querystring limit of, as I understand it, 2K (in the MS world) or I'll have some other problem with deal with.

Thanks for your explanations.