Asp Help

impr0v

I can't understand this at all.
The following code won't work for me:

<h3 class="otherlinks2"><span><a href="sub_com.asp?groupName=<%=Server.URLEncode(rs_groups.Fields.Item("groupName").Value)%>&groupId=<%=(rs_groups.Fields.Item("groupId").Value)%>" title="Click to View Group"><%=(rs_groups.Fields.Item("groupName").Value)%></a></span></h3>

What I am obviously trying to do is to return a value for groupName, as a link, passing groupName and groupId in the url from that link. However, it renders as the link blank for some reason which I can't establish.

Here's the relevant excerpt from the rendered page:

<h3 class="otherlinks2"><span><a href="sub_com.asp?groupName=Charter%2FConvention&groupId=2" title="Click to View Group"></a></span></h3>

groupName will render into the href tag, but won't render as text.

As a test I replaced the groupName with groupId, and it worked fine.

Any help appreciated, I've been looking at this for about an hour.

Kai

That is a weird one alright, they both look exactly the same so it should work.

If it was me id try putting it in a variable instead :

dim vargroupName

vargroupName = (rs_groups.Fields.Item("groupName").Value)

<h3 class="otherlinks2"><span><a href="sub_com.asp?groupName=<%=Server.URLEncode(vargroupName)%>&groupId=<%=(rs_groups.Fields.Item("groupId").Value)%>" title="Click to View Group"><%=vargroupName%></a></span></h3>

impr0v

Your work-around does the business, thanks a lot.

Still, If anyone has a theory as to why the original wouldn't work, I'd like to know.