Help

jerrin · May 12th, 2005, 05:39 AM

Hi everyone,

Can anyone help me out with this problem? I have an asp page with 5 textbox controls. the user is allowed to enter values in 4 of them and when he clicks on the submit button the sum of the 4 values should be displayed in the fifth box. now.. the problem... i am able to do this by writing a simple vbscript function. so far so good. now in addition to this i want to display the corresponding grade for the sum, which i retreive from the database. so as to retreive the info from the db, i need to have <form> tags with method as post or get. but then, the script does not work. when i works without the script the page self references and the values entered are not displayed. am i missing something here or.... i am in a fix. do enlighten me. thank u.

jerrin

ChrisScott · May 12th, 2005, 05:55 AM

Hi Jerrin,

When you submit the form, the page is rebuilt & any values entered in the text boxes are lost.

You can populate the boxes again by writing the value submitted in the form into their value attributes, e.g. for a post...

Code:

<input type="text" name="myTextBox" value="<%=Server.HTMLEncode(Request.Form("myTextBox"))%>" />

jerrin · May 12th, 2005, 04:17 PM

Hi Chris,

Thank you for the answer, but I had already tried this out. What happens is.. I am able to populate the controls as you mentioned but the reset button would not function, if the user wished to change/reset the values. Is it possible to view the result on another page and have it displayed on the same page in a different frame.. i hope i have made myself clear. I am not able to get a solution for this. The problem is i want to execute a script and communicate with the database on the same page as i mentioned before.

jerrin