Multiple submit buttons

fizzerchris · November 28th, 2005, 01:52 PM

The form has two buttons, if button "One" is presed, the variable gets "one", if button "Two" is pressed, the variable gets "two". Of course I may need to use something completely different.

All this is in a file called multibtn.asp.

Please enlighten me!

<BODY>
<%
Dim variable

'I'm pretty sure code goes here here for it to get
'information based on what button is pressed

If variable = "One" Then
Response.Write "button 1 was clicked"
End If

If variable = "Two" Then
Response.Write "button 2 was clicked"
End If
%>

<FORM ACTION="multibtn.asp" METHOD="post">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="One" NAME="cmdOne">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Two" NAME="cmdTwo">
</FORM>

</BODY>

Imar · November 28th, 2005, 02:41 PM

This is classic ASP, not ASP.NET right? In that case, you're better off posting in one of the classic ASP forums in the ASP and ASP.NET category, listed here: http://p2p.wrox.com/asp-net-asp-12

That said, what you're after is Request.Form(ButtonName)

Give both buttons the same name, like this:

Code:

<form action="multibtn.asp" method="post">
  <inut type="SUBMIT" value="One" name="SubmitButton">
  <inut type="SUBMIT" value="Two" name="SubmitButton">
</form>

And then you can use this:

Code:

Dim buttonPressed
buttonPressed = Request.Form("SubmitButton")

Select Case buttonPressed
  Case "One"
    Response.Write "button 1 was clicked"
  Case "Two"
    Response.Write "button 2 was clicked"
End Select

HtH,

Imar
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fizzerchris · November 28th, 2005, 04:55 PM

This did exactly what I needed. Excellent, TYVM!

PS: Sorry about posting in the wrong forum (=

diskodan · November 26th, 2007, 04:39 PM

Can you show this example using .net?

I just need it up to setting a variable to the id of the button that was clicked. And I am using multiple ImageButton..

Basically I have multiple ImageButtons calling the same function. And in that function I want to set a string variable with the ImageButton that was clicked ID.

string ImageButtonClicked = FormName.ButtonClicked.Name;
(above is logic I want to use with incorrect syntax)

Thanks!
Dan

Imar · November 27th, 2007, 05:23 AM

Hi Dan,

Simple have each ImageButton call the same method, then cast the sender argument to a Control and retrieve its ID:

Markup

Code:

<asp:ImageButton ID="ImageButton1" runat="server" onclick="ImageButton1_Click" />
<asp:ImageButton ID="ImageButton2" runat="server" onclick="ImageButton1_Click" />
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>

Code Behind

Code:

protected void ImageButton1_Click(object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e)
{
  WebControl myControl = sender as WebControl;
  if (myControl != null)
  {
    Label1.Text = myControl.ID;
  }
}

If you cast to an ImageButton instead of a more generic WebControl, you can access ImageButton specific properties as well.

Cheers and hope this helps,

Imar

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diskodan · November 27th, 2007, 02:45 PM

Worked like a charm! Thank you much.:)

Imar · November 27th, 2007, 05:33 PM

You're welcome....

Imar

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http://Imar.Spaanjaars.Com
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004