Hi,

I am new to asp. The problem I face is as follows.

I have a user registeration form which gets validated server side. When the form is posted & if there is a validation error, all the fields are wiped out & the user needs to re enter the values. Is there any way to preserve these values so that the user does not need to re enter the entire form data? Would appreciate if could some1 cld point me in the right direction?
Many Thanks,

Ps: I can't change to .net

Yes you can do this.

You need some code to manipulate the generation of the input elements that contain those values.
There are many ways to do this.

If you are interspersing code throughout the HTML of your page, then you could write a function for each input element. The function would check for the existing value in the form vars and return it if it exists, and return a default value (such as an empty string) when it does not exisit.



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Hi Woddyz,

Thx for your response. Are you aware of any tutorials/examples around which show the method you have told above. I havent had much luck with this.

Many Thanks Again,
Rgds,
Tausif

Well... for starters try this link:
http://asp3wiki.wrox.com/wiki/show/H...ge+for+ASP+3.0

That is a pretty nice free book online that covers everything you will need.
You can also find that book at the online used book places for just a dollar or two.


and this link is the old stand by:
http://www.w3schools.com/asp/default.asp

If you can't get a simple example easily I'll be surprised... but let us know if you still need help


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Thx a lot for that asp3wiki link .. :) ..

I simply decided to store those form values in a variables & used
<%=sUserName%> ... so when the page was called , if username had any value it was displayed ...

Thx again, Good day,
Tausif

Sounds like a good solution

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