Multiple forms and submit button

[Anon]

I have a page that requires me to use 2 forms. The first form gathers a date, and the second form is supposed to submit the entire batch to a database. however, I cannot get the date information to post to the database. Can you help me with this? I have searched all over the web without luck.

[Anon]

Hi Whitey,

This may be a little of a long way round, but try using an onchange event handler on the date information field in your first form to write to a hidden field in the second form.

For example:
<form name="form01">
<input type="text" name="date" onchange="window.document.form02.date.value = this.value;">
</form>
<form name="form02">
<input type="hidden" name="date" onchange="updateHiddenField()">
</form>

You could use an onsubmit event handler if you prefer in the second form to grab the value from the first field and stuff it into an hidden field. Onsubmit may be more widely supported than onchange, but both methods described require JavaScript to be enabled.

Kind Regards,

David Grant

[Anon]

Hi Whitey,

Please IGNORE the onchange="updateHiddenFiled()" attribute of the input element in the second form, as it is an error which resulted from cutting and pasting!

Kind Regards,

David Grant

[Anon]

David-
I'm new to javascript too. Are there elements in the header that should be available? When I submit the information, the string "this.value" gets posted, not the date.