About Jeff Allen Expertise I can answer basic to intermediate questions related to Classic ASP.I can answer Intermediate to Advanced questions CSS& HTML, and basic questions about JavaScript and Ajax. I can also answer questions related to web page accessibility under US Section 508.
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I'm just starting with ASP and came to a dead end.
I'm trying to create a simple page with a form that has few select buttons, and depending on what the user selects I want to display specific page. Say they select "volvo" I want to display "volvo.html" or should that be "volvo.asp", no idea?
So here is my html:
<form name=”selection” action="display.asp" method="get">
<select name="cars”>
<option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
<option value="saab">Saab</option>
<option value="fiat">Fiat</option>
<option value="audi">Audi</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
So, how do I process the info from the form to display a specific page?
I would appreciate any help you could give me!
Thanks a lot & regards,
Bobbie
Answer Bobbie, actually it's fairly simple. First change your form method from "get" to "post". Secondly, you could redirect to either volvo.html, volvo.html or volvo.asp whichever you wanted, but whichever extension you choose to use try to be consistent, it will save headaches in the long run. Another option however, if you are connecting to a database for that information is that you could display it all in display.asp by querying the database based ont he value of myCar but that is bit more tricky to do so I will show you how to do the redirect.
Now, let's go to display.asp. What you can do is something like this:
<%
'Get the value of the cars select box
Dim myCar : myCar = Request.Form("cars")
select myCar
case "volvo"
response.redirect "volvo.htm"
case "saab"
response.redirect "saab.htm"
case "fiat"
respone.redirect "fiat.htm"
case "audi"
response.redirect "audi.htm"
case else
response.write "Please press the back button and select a make of car to see information pertaining to that make."
end select
%>
This should do it. Let me know if this works for you.
