Pre Populating a HTML Form From the URL

southpawuk

Hi, This is my first post.

We are running a case management system and on one of our screens we link to a engineers site where there is a HTML form. We simply open this site using a URL.

My question is...Is there anyway to send information to a HTML form using the URL. For example "HTTP://www.myform.htm" (then put information you want to populate the form with here) I know how to do this using ASP but i just need to do it using standard HTML with a URL.

Thanks for any feedback,

zibadian

: Hi, This is my first post.
:
: We are running a case management system and on one of our screens we link to a engineers site where there is a HTML form. We simply open this site using a URL.
:
: My question is...Is there anyway to send information to a HTML form using the URL. For example "HTTP://www.myform.htm" (then put information you want to populate the form with here) I know how to do this using ASP but i just need to do it using standard HTML with a URL.
:
: Thanks for any feedback,
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I don't think it is possible with only HTML, but you can use javascript for it. With the right script you can place the initial values using an URL query: http://www.mysite.com?username=someone&domain=private

mac_doggie

: Hi, This is my first post.
:
: We are running a case management system and on one of our screens we link to a engineers site where there is a HTML form. We simply open this site using a URL.
:
: My question is...Is there anyway to send information to a HTML form using the URL. For example "HTTP://www.myform.htm" (then put information you want to populate the form with here) I know how to do this using ASP but i just need to do it using standard HTML with a URL.
:
: Thanks for any feedback,
:
:
:
:
Try this...
Put in the parameters ?name=MyName&[email protected]
to your URL
[code]

var params = document.location.search.substr(1,document.location.search.length).split('&');
var arguments = Array();
for(var i=0;i<params.length;i++) {
var arg = params[i].split("=");
arguments[arg[0]] = arg[1];
}
alert(arguments['name']);
alert(arguments['email']);
[/code]

;-)
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