I have a form on my page that I'd like to copy the entry in it before it's submitted.

For example: In box "city", I'd like to copy that to a variable called "cityname" to use elsewhere in the programming. (The variable isn't passed from page to page and in this case, I don't want it to be as "city"."

Is there any way to do this before the form's submitted?

Thanks in advance.

You can get the value via Javascript and using AJAX do some further processing with it, but that value will not become available to your script until the form has been submitted otherwise.

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Any suggestions on where I could find something like this in JavaScript? Thanks!

Getting the value in Javascript is easy:

var City = myForm.elements["txtCity"].value;

The ajax is a bit more tricky and i suggest you go read some primers on it but, in any event, the most you are going to be able to do with Ajax is get the value of your text box, send that value to another page on the server, have some sort of processing done and a value returned to your Ajax script were you can change the host page.

I am not sure if that is what you are looking for or not.

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Let me see if I can be a little more specific. Right now I have a form that I'm submitting via .asp "post" to an off-site server. Before the form's posted, I want to copy the information in the "city" box pre-submission or at the same time the form's submitted to the "cityName" variable. (All this info goes to a remote server and they return everything variable-wise except this one variable...which I need to process my end of things. Asking them to add things is a nightmare.)

Will the: var City = myForm.elements["txtCity"].value; command work for that?

Thanks!

That will get the value of txtCity, you can either do it at submit time or you can wire up the onBlur event of the text box to populate it pre-submittal.

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