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Topic: textarea value disappears

Posted By: jenn5175
Subject: textarea value disappears
Date Posted: 08 August 2006 at 9:26pm

When I submit my form, there is nothing in the textarea value that is submitted. It works in the default.asp page supplied, but not in my real life example.

Here is my code


<tr>
                                        <td>Msg:<br>
                                    <%
                      'ID tag name of the HTML form the textarea is within
                      strFormName = "form1"
                      
                      'ID tag name of HTML textarea being replaced
                      strTextAreaName = "sMyMessage"
                      
                      %>
                      <!-- include the Web Wiz Rich Text Editor -->
                      <!--#include file="RTE_editor_inc.asp" -->

                           
                                    <textarea name=sMessage id=sMyMessage rows=15 cols=55><%=sMessage%></textarea></td>
                                    </tr>

And here is where the page submits to:


sMessage = trim(replace(Request.Form("sMessage"), "'", "`"))
    if sMessage = "" then
        sError = sError & "Please enter some text<br>"
    end if

It ALWAYS gives the error message meaning sMessage is blank.

Help!
Jenn

Replies:

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 9:39am

The form name and ID tag need to have the same name eg:-

name="sMyMessage" id="sMyMessage"

Also I can't see the form tag, but make sure that has a different name to tbe texteara but the 'name' and 'id' property have the same name.

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Posted By: jenn5175
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 1:08pm

I was being dumb on this one - the issue was I was using a link to submit rather than a submit button. Changing it to a submit button made everything work - sorry!

FYI - in the example you guys give us in the zip file the name and id are different - that is why I did it that way (originally I had them the same and thought that might be the issue). Just in case anyone else is reading this, wanted to point it out that from everything I can tell, they DO NOT have to be the same (although it is good practice).

Thanks!

Jenn