ARRGGHH!!! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it was something simple. I am so used to "posting" forms that I forgot that you can use method="get". That worked. The form now goes send the data to the framed page properly.
thanks all for your help. larry -- Larry C. Lyons ColdFusion/Web Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer EBStor.com 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 tel: (703) 393-7930 fax: (703) 393-2659 Web: http://www.ebstor.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Lyons > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:50 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: passing data to a form within a frame > > > Thanks Dan. > > I'm calling the custom tag cf_formurl2attributes as the very > first line in > the index page. I thought that would cover it, I guess not > however. I'll try > your suggestion and let you know how it works. > > The other alternative would be to point it to a processing > page then do a > cflocation to the index page after that. > > regards, > > larry > > -- > Larry C. Lyons > ColdFusion/Web Developer > Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer > EBStor.com > 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 > Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 > tel: (703) 393-7930 > fax: (703) 393-2659 > Web: http://www.ebstor.com > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. > -- > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan Haley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 5:36 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: passing data to a form within a frame > > > > > > Index.cfm is getting the form post and doing nothing with it, > > since all it > > does is output the frameset. Once the browser gets the > > frameset it requests > > the individual frames, and that request doesn't carry the > > form post with it. > > In your index.cfm pass the form variables along as url variables for > > context.cfm. > > > > Dan > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:34 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: OT: passing data to a form within a frame > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry for the technical OT, but I figure that I may get a > > better response > > from this list. Or at the very least a funnier one. > > > > I'm having problems with a form submitting to a page within a framed > > document. The form works fine when submitting to the target > > page directly > > (as in the form pointing to context.cfm?fa=SearchResults) but > > not when the > > target document is within a frame (as in > > index.cfm?fa=SearchResults). No > > form variables show up on the target page. Any ideas or > > suggestions would be > > really helpful. > > > > thanks, > > > > larry > > > > -- > > Larry C. Lyons > > ColdFusion/Web Developer > > Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer > > EBStor.com > > 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 > > Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 > > tel: (703) 393-7930 > > fax: (703) 393-2659 > > Web: http://www.ebstor.com > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. > > -- > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
