Re: Formmail Question

by Marty Landman <marty(at)face2interface.com>

Date:	Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:18:33 -0500
To:	<eagle(at)upstateguide.com>, "HWG Business" <hwg-business(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	upstateguide
	todo: View Thread, Original

At 11:43 AM 1/28/01, Ellie Walsh wrote:
>When someone submits a form........and they have an
>error......
>ie: they forgot to add their email address.......when they go
>back to the form.........they have to fill in the entire form
>again.
>
>Is there a way that they can go back and all the fields they
>filled
>in are still filled in?!

Sure they can. The easiest way for the developer is to just have the error 
page specify that they visitor should use their back button to go to the 
previous page, where all their data is already there, conveniently restored 
from the browser's cache.

The easier way for the visitor is to have the program restore the values on 
the form. IOW the form-handler can restore the form with all the visitor 
supplied data left on it by program logic, along with the relevant error 
messages.

hth,

Marty

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