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Hi,
I have a situation where I have a textarea in a form. This form is passing the textarea to a new page (actually I needed it to be shown in a entirely new window so I have a bit of javascript that loads a new window and passes the textarea value in the URL)

So when the javascript encounters the textarea with values

it produces "newwindow.php?value1=abc"

and shows on page 2 as "abc"

I need to output the data entered into the textarea on page 1 on page 2, exactly as it has been typed.

It is essential that I get the form value shown on a new window, if it were to direct to the same window there is no problem as it doesn't have to be passed through the URL.

Below is my code, including the javascript.

If anyone can help, then I'd be most grateful,
Regards,
Adrian.

Below is my form with the javascript to open the new window with form values passed to it.

<html> 
<head> 
<title>Untitled Document</title> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 
 
 
<script type="text/javascript"> 
     
    function SubmitUnits(totalvalues, formname, winwidth, winheight) 
    { 
        var valueslist = ""; 
        var FullSearchUrl2 = ""; 
        for(i = 1; i <= totalvalues; i++) 
            { 
            if (i > 1) { valueslist = valueslist + "&";} 
            valueslist = valueslist + "value1=exercise.value1.value";
            } 
        var FullSearchUrl2 = "newwindow.php?" + valueslist; 
        var WindowName = "newwindow" + formname; 
 
        newWindow=window.open(FullSearchUrl2,WindowName,"resizable=yes,location=no,width=" + 
winwidth + ",height="+ winheight +
" ,locationbar=no,directories=no,header=no,title=no,
scrollbars=yes")  ; 
    } 
</script>     
 
 
</head> 
 
<body> 
 
            <form name="exercise" method="post" action="" target="_new"> 
              <table width="100%" border="0"> 
                <tr> 
                  <td align="center"> 
                <textarea name="value1" cols="60" rows="10"></textarea> 
                  </td> 
                </tr> 
              </table> 
              <p align="center"><b><a href="java script:SubmitUnits(1,'5_1B',560,550);">Submit 
                your answers >></a></b></p> 
            </form> 
             
</body> 
</html>

[ June 04, 2004: Message edited by: Eric Pascarello ]
[ June 04, 2004: Message edited by: Eric Pascarello ]

Ernest Friedman-Hill

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Hi Adrian,

Note that Java and JavaScript share nothing but two syllables. This forum is for Java discussions, not JavaScript, but we do also have a forum dedicated to HTML and JavaScript here.
I'm going to move your post over to that forum, where it's much more likely to get an answer.

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This question has already been asked here.

Please do not cross-post the same question in multiple forums. It wastes people's tme when mutiple redundant conversations take place as well as the time that the moderators have to spend cleaning up after you.

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try showing the code in a <pre> tag, if that does not work, then you are going to have to play with the textarea before it is submitted to the new window.

Eric

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