I'm trying to pass a datetime in a hidden field across several forms because it's a PITA to pass in the URL. It's passed OK from the first to the second. In the second I request the value from the first form and put it in another hidden field. I've checked the value just after setting the field on the second form and it IS there. But when it gets to the third form, the request returns an empty string.

I know the field name is correct in all places - in fact it's identical. And the field appears inside the form, as well. All the forms involved have method="POST".

Do you have any clues for me why this value isn't available when it gets to the third form?

Hi,

Can you paste your code here?

Cheers!
Marlon

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention...

I tried your scenario and I got to pass a hidden datetime value to a third page by removing the runat="server" attribute from the <form> element. However, you can still access individual web controls inside the form through codebehind if they have the runat attribute.

Cheers!
Marlon

Marlon,

The third page did indeed contain runat="server" - I thought it was necessary because this code updates a SQL Server DB. Because I couldn't get it to go as designed and needed to get past this problem quickly, I resorted to yet another work around. I'll give your suggestion a try the next time I try to do something this way. Thanks for your response!