JSP Form Problem Input text box

quinnd6

Ive 2 forms on the one page.

A userAddress string is inputted via a textbox on the first form.

There is a input hidden field in the second form that needs to retrieve the string inputted in the text box on the first form into its value.

Can this be done?

Heres some code that shows my problem

<%
String userAddress = (null == (userAddress = (String)request.getAttribute("useraddress")) ? "" : userAddress);
 
%>
 
<form action="/servPublicArea" method="POST" name="form1" onsubmit="return checkFields();">
<div id="email">
		 <input type="text" name="email" value="<%=userAddress%>" size="50">
	</div>
 
<div id="release">
		<input id="submitButton" name="submit" type="submit" value="Release Mail" onclick="this.enabled = false; return true;">
		       
		
	</div>
</form>
 
<form action="/servPublicArea" method="POST" name="whitelistform" onsubmit="return checkFields();"> 
	<input type="hidden" name="view" value="whitelistandrelease">
	<input type="hidden" name="emailwhitelist" value="<%=userAddress%>">
 
<div id="release">
		<br>
		<input id="submitButton2" name="submit2" type="submit" value="Release Mail and Whitelist Sender" onclick="this.enabled = false; return true;">
		
	</div>
 
</form>

Trampas

Why have you two forms on the one page?

quinnd6

Because Ive 2 buttons performing different actions so I think they need to be in different forms

quinnd6

Maybe Id just be better off having both submit buttons in the same form.

How do I detect which button is pressed?

marco_polo

quinnd6 wrote:

Maybe Id just be better off having both submit buttons in the same form.

How do I detect which button is pressed?

Regular <input type=submit name="" value=""> buttons put a name=value pair in the query string that has the name of the button and the button text as its value.

Looking up the parameter will tell you if the button was pressed or not. If getParameter("button1") is null then you know button 1 was not pressed etc.

If you wanted the buttons to go to different pages then I think you would have to use javascript to achieve this.

quinnd6

Is there something wrong with this?

<%if(request.getParameter("submitButton")!=null){%>
<input type="hidden" name="view" value="spamrel">
<% } %>

hussey

A userAddress string is inputted via a textbox on the first form.

There is a input hidden field in the second form that needs to retrieve the string inputted in the text box on the first form into its value.

Can this be done?

easist way is through JS - on your 2nd form, have a method when the user submits the form, copy the Form1.field.value to the Form2.hiddenfield.value etc

I think the JS is : document.[FormName].[fieldname].value

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Is there something wrong with this?

<%if(request.getParameter("submitButton")!=null){%>
<input type="hidden" name="view" value="spamrel">
<% } %>
No - but only if you are posting a form to the jsp