[WEB4LIB] Re: JavaScript question

[Luck, Deanne]

Thanks, Eric, that did the trick!  

Feeling dumb,
DeAnne Luck
Electronic Resources Librarian
Austin Peay State University
LuckDL at apsu.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Hellman [mailto:eric at openly.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 4:28 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: JavaScript question



Looks like you're overescaping ampersands:

  <option 
value="http://webspirs4.silverplatter.com:8300/c29918?sp.form.first.p= 
srchmain.htm&amp;amp;sp.dbid.p=S(NU)">

ought to be

  <option 
value="http://webspirs4.silverplatter.com:8300/c29918?sp.form.first.p= 
srchmain.htm&amp;sp.dbid.p=S(NU)">


At 2:13 PM -0700 6/8/00, Luck, Deanne wrote:
>Our recently redesigned home page (http://library.apsu.edu) includes a drop
>down "jumpbox" for quick access to our databases.  I borrowed a javascript
>program for this which has always worked nicely for us.  However, when I
>tried to add links to our SilverPlatter Internet subscriptions, it won't go
>to the correct page.  Our SilverPlatter URLs should go directly to the
>specific database, but the jumpbox gets an error saying "Please choose
>another database."  I thought maybe the end of the URL (where the database
>is specified) was getting mangled, but when I modified the script to print
>the output, it came out fine.  All the other URLs in the jumpbox work fine,
>and regular links using the SilverPlatter URLs work fine. Is the script
>doing something I can't see?
>
>The page which prints the output is http://library.apsu.edu/testhome.htm.
>
>Thanks,
>DeAnne Luck
>Electronic Resources Librarian
>Austin Peay State University
>LuckDL at apsu.edu

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