I have the following form:

<FORM ACTION="action_page.cfm" METHOD="post" NAME="theform">
Input name: <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name" <cfif isdefined("name")>VALUE=<cfoutput>#name#</cfoutput></cfif>>
Input ID: <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="ID" VALUE="">
<BR><BR>
<INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="Add_ID" VALUE="Add_ID" onClick="window.location='TestForm.cfm?name="+document.theform.name.value+"'">
<INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="Add_ID" VALUE="Clear" onClick="window.location='TestForm.cfm'">
<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="Submit_ID" VALUE="Submit">
</FORM>

I don't know if I am doing something wrong, but everytime I try to run this, I get a javascript error: "Unterminated string constant".

The problem lies somewhere in the code for the Add_ID button. If I remove the quotes around the + signs, it works, but then the string is added as the name field, which is not what I want.

Any ideas or tips?

hi ecojohnson

replace this
onClick="window.location='TestForm.cfm?name="+document.theform.name.value+"'">

with this


<INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="Add_ID" VALUE="Add_ID" onClick="window.location='TestForm.cfm?name=this.form.name.value'">


should work

Hi Alexandr:

Thanks for your response. I cut and pasted your revision into my code and I no longer got an error. Except, it didn't really fix my problem.

Now, when I enter a value (I justed used the word "test") and then select the button, "test" is removed, and is replaced by "this.form.name.value".

I tried adding quotes, and other things and I still couldn't get it to work.

If you have any other ideas, please let me know. Thanks!

simply write function
function golink(name,value)
{
window.location.href = "TestForm.cfm?" + name + "=" + value;
}

and your code
<INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="Add_ID" VALUE="Add_ID" onClick="golink('name', this.form.name.value)">

or you don't want to use a function

Wow, that worked like a charm. Now I'm depressed. I know so little about JS.

Thanks so much!

something more
yesterday night I was tired and can't give you stright aswer
but it's possible without function

<INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="Add_ID" VALUE="Add_ID" onClick="window.location='TestForm.cfm?name=' + this.form.name.value">

hi all

ecojohnson i noticed in your code <cfif> which i couldnt understand what its doing

your problem as you might already found out that is with the comas ' which is a known prob in js so dont get depressed

but about the <cfif> is someone can explain i will aprricate it

Hey Gray Wolf,

The <cfif> tag is a ColdFusion tag to perform conditional tests. In this instance, it is testing to see if the variable "name" exists. The <cfoutput> tag is used together with the <cfquery> tag. WebMoneky (http://hotwired.com) has some great tutorials on ColdFusion if you want to check them out.

Hope that helps!

Happy coding! :)

thanks :cool:

its always a plassure to learn a few new things

have a cold beer on my expense :p

(if you are in the right age) ;)