[WEB4LIB] Re: Seemingly simple web FORM help request

[Keith Higgs]

It requires an onsubmit event handler in the <form> tag. The function you 
will write should access the document.[formname].[fieldname].value, modify 
it, and return true. A return value of false will cause your form to not 
submit. I use similar methods to perform client side validation.

Note: This method will only work if the client processes client-side scripts.

Keith

At 04:16 PM 2/14/2002, Jeff Burns wrote:
>Check this out. Very customizable. I think this is what your looking for.
>http://www.noblenet.org/swapshop/snark.htm
>
>I used a modified version of this script with frames.
>
>Here's more helpful scripts:
>http://www.noblenet.org/swapshop/
>
>**********************************************************
>
> >>> "RICHARD EDWARDS" <REDWARDS at statelib.wa.gov> 02/13/02 03:15PM >>>
>Greetings,
>
>I am trying to create a web page with a form to search our Innovative 
>Interfaces, Inc. catalog for a special purpose outside their normal search 
>pages and I've gotten very close but can't seem to quite get there.
>
>What I'm trying to do is create a subject search where the patron inputs 
>the first part of the data and the form itself supplies additional data 
>which I need appended to the patron input and then submitted to the III 
>catalog for searching.
>
>The current draft looks like this:
>
><FORM ACTION="http://cals.evergreen.edu/search~s2/d" method=get>
>         <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
>         <INPUT align=center maxLength=64 name=SEARCH size=50>
>                 <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="(WASH) -- Newspapers">
>         <INPUT type=submit value=Search>
>
>The resulting action, when added to the user input "Milton" creates the URL:
>http://cals.evergreen.edu/search~s2/d?SEARCH=Milton&%28WASH%29+--+Newspapers=
>which unfortunately comes very close but not quite what III's catalog is 
>looking for.
>
>It breaks down at the "&" between the input values. What I need there is a 
>"+" so the URL reads:
>http://cals.evergreen.edu/search~s2/d?SEARCH=Milton+%28WASH%29+--+Newspapers=
>
>That URL works perfectly fine.
>
>Any simple way to achieve this?
>
>joyfully,
>
>Rich Edwards
>Innovative Coordinator
>Washington State Library
>Olympia, WA
>redwards at statelib.wa.gov
>(360)704-7136
>
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