Re: Opening a page & submitting a form at same time, Lo-tech style

Unless there is an ultra guru out there, you must have a backend script to 
process the information from the form, or you are out of luck.

JavaScript is irrelevant in this case.  Your form doesn't work because 
JavaScript is not a CGI.

I am unaware of any web form that does not require some level of server 
interaction to make it operate, i.e., CGI.

Ah, I just checked your page and after doing *nothing* eventually found the 
submit graphic (poor choice - doesn't look like a submit button) and 
managed to go to your other page with no problems, and entering no data.


At 12:38 PM 11/29/01 -0800, Complex wrote:
>I am trying to open a page and submit a form with one click of a submit
>button or link.
>
>That would be easy, but I am also making the following restrictions:
>         1) Don't use the CGI to open the web page, because the ISP's server
>has had problems in the past and not returned the "load this page"
>result in a reasonable amount of time.
>         2) Don't use JavaScript to open the page because I'm tryinng to work
>around customers who either don't have JavaScript activated or who are
>running into some weird JS problem that I haven't identified.
>
>Yah, that's overly restrictive. I'll tell customers that JavaScript is
>required, but only if I really really have to.
>
>This is my failed attempt (I changed the file names for brevity):
>
>< a href="destination.html"
>onClick="Trade_Info4Downloads.submit(); return true;">
>< img src="arrow4.gif">< /a>
>
>That will open the destination page, but it doesn't submit the form.
>You can see the above script at:
>http://www.scanalytics.com/webtest/downloadEntry_onClick.html
>
>It seems like the link is acting before the onClick handler can act. I
>also tried putting the submit method in the body tag's onUnload
>handler.
>Hmmmm, I can't tell if submit() is working at all!
>
>
>Ugh. Can someone please tell me how I should go about this? (Assuming
>there's a way other than telling the user what I require of them)
>
>TIA


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