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

What exactly is the action of the form?

If it is calling matt wrights formmail script, then can't you just tell the
script to use the destination page as the thank you page?

Andre

----- Original Message -----
From: "Complex" <complex_hwg(at)yahoo.com>
To: "HWG Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:38 PM
Subject: Opening a page & submitting a form at same time, Lo-tech style


> 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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