I honestly don't know why people use the approach of having a hidden field 
on a re-entrant form to indicate whether it should be validated or not. I 
have used re-entrant forms for years without such a thing. How? Quite simply 
there are two phases to a form - GET, which requests a form from the server, 
and POST, which sends a form to the server. It is therefore quite obvious 
that I validate on every POST. Simple, isn't it?

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"Todd Cary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> To validate a page, I set the form value to the page name the user is on. 
> Then there is a hidden variable, "looped" that is set to "1".  By checking 
> "looped", I know if the user has re-entered the form so I can do my 
> validation checks.
>
> Is there a disadvantage to this approach?
>
> Thank you... 

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