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stopping redirect on form submittal

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Apr 14.2004

hey guys, is there any way for you to stop a page from changing its location when you submit a form? for example, when you click on the submit button, the form sends the stuff in it to the place in the action paramater, but doenst change the location of the page. ive tried a bunch of stuff, refreshing the page wont work in my application because its getting stuff to make the form from a product database. any help would be much appreciated.

~Hal

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@ExuroApr 15.2004 — Try changing the form's target attribute to either a different frame or a different window:

<form action="form.php" method="post" [color=red]target="_blank"[/color]>
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@steelersfan88Apr 15.2004 — ... or target to another frame, so that it is completely hidden. However, the target attribute is deprecated ?

(after doing a tad of research on this, the target attribute will only validate in transitional, not strict, HTML and XHTML)
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@lahmayesauthorApr 15.2004 — its deprecated and they dont have some sort of alternative?
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@steelersfan88Apr 15.2004 — i don't know of one ?
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@lahmayesauthorApr 15.2004 — hmm, looks like i have some issues with the w3c, haha im sure they know what theyre doing, guess ill have to use this until i figure out somehting else... thanks guys.
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@steelersfan88Apr 15.2004 — it works under transitional, just not strict, so chnage doctypes accordingly ?
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@lahmayesauthorApr 15.2004 — hmmm... i think ill keep my doctype and just live with 1 error. :-/ so it goes.
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