[skeedog98]

I have a form that takes some information from people. When a button is pushed at the end of the form it starts a JavaScript function that validates all the information and then displays it back in a new window. Now inside the function that display's the information taken from form1 is a hidden form. This form is part of the html that comprises the display window. There is a submit button on the display window which sends the information in the hidden form fields to a cgi script for server side processing. Now here is my problem. How do I get the information from the form where the information is entered to the hidden form fields? When the information is posted to the cgi script instead of the data entered in the form what is shown is the locations where the data should be (document.form1.name.value) instead of whatever name was entered.
Here is a piece of what I am doing. How do I fix the value attribute to not literally display document.form1.firstname.value and have it display the info that is contained in it?
message +="<input type='hidden' value='document.form1.firstname.value' name='firstname' />"

[bushwhacker]

I won't say that I don't think there's a way to do this with JavaScript, cause I'm 90 percent sure there is, but I don't know what it is. I suggest checking out [url=http://www.webmonkey.com] and their JS tutorials if you wish to keep looking.

I suggest, however, if you're already writing CGI scripts, just have the job that the JS was going to do done by a CGI. You can print HTML to the browser with Perl just as easily as with JS and it's easy to access the variables in that language. They will be stored as post or get variables from the first form and then you can just do a <input type="hidden" name="varname" value=$variable1>

Any reason you're avoiding that?

[honeydew]

Originally posted by skeedog98:
<STRONG>How do I fix the value attribute to not literally display document.form1.firstname.value and have it display the info that is contained in it?</STRONG>

Like this?

message += "&lt;input type='hidden' value='" + document.form1.firstname.value + "' name='firstname' /&gt;"