Button Problem

[rathnadevil]

Hi,

I want to use three 'Submit' buttons on a form for three different actions. Is it possible to identify which button the user has clicked?

Or please let me know some other alternative solution to this problem.

Thanks

[tresesert]

I believe there is an onClick event associated with buttons in forms. If you are using jsp to perform some action associated with the button, you could call it directly from there, call a function that would set a variable or redirect it to an html link. I don't know if this would work, but in theory I think it would look like this:

<FORM>
<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="Validate"
ONCLICK="performvalidate();">
<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="Email"
ONCLICK="www.hotmail.com">
<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="Submit"
ONCLICK="submit();">
</FORM>


I am unsure if there is a method associated to let you directly know which button has been clicked, like there is in java. Hope this helps. If I'm way off, let me know, maybe I can clarify.

[tresesert]

This is another snippet of code I found that might be of use to you:

<FORM ACTION="foldoc.cgi">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="action" VALUE="Home">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="action" VALUE="Contents">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="action" VALUE="Feedback">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="action" VALUE="Random">
<INPUT NAME="query">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="action" VALUE="Search">
</FORM>

[dgobrien]

Do you want to post in all cases, or do you want to handle some of the clicks on the client? I don't know which browsers you're targeting, but it's really easy in IE. Use the onclick method on each button to set a hiddent input, and then call form.submit(). Or do it in the form's onSubmit handler. If you get stuck let me know.

[pmmbala]

hi

for which button clicked..like this u can check it

if Request.Form("button1") <> "" then doprocess1()

if Request.Form("button2") <> "" then doprocess2()

if Request.Form("button2") <> "" then doprocess3()

sub doprocess1()
---- some code
end sub


sub doprocess2()
-------- some code
end sub

sub doprocess3()
---- some code
end sub




Thanks