Possible to retrieve form data without submitting?

Junior WebHelper Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 2 Location: UK

I would like to construct a URL with attached form variables so that I can pass form variables to the next page without using the Submit button.

This all has to do with the use of CSS to create mouseover buttons. Surrounding the Submit button with an empty hyperlink tag lets me use the pseudo class a:hover to switch images and I can make the actual Submit button invisible.

This works fine in IE, but not in Netscape or Mozilla, both of which ignore the Submit button's action in favour of the blank URL surrounding it!

Therefore I want to eliminate the need for the 'built-in' Submit button and create my own version with mouseover graphics.

So, after all that, how can I capture the value from a Select box within that page and without reloading the page? Is it possible with PHP alone as I'm not keen to rely on Javascript?

Thanks.

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:01 pm (19 years, 7 months ago)

You would almost certainly need to use Javascript, as to use PHP the data would first need to be submitted. I'm not an expert on this, but I found these on Google:

Junior WebHelper Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 2 Location: UK

Many thanks, Adam. Today (with the benefit of having slept!) I realised the impossibility of what I was asking. I was resigned to having to use Javascript but now you have given me an alternative as for my application I won't have reset buttons! Very Happy