Question

I am new to ASP.net and have this code on a page:

<% IF (Request.Form("clicked")="clicked") %>

<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
  jQuery.colorbox({
    iframe      : true,
    innerWidth  : 430,
    innerHeight : 208,
    href        : "/v/browse_market.asp"
  });
});
</script>
<%ELSE%>
<%END IF%>

Basically I only want the Colorbox to load if the user has come to the page through a form button that was clicked. The form on the previous page is here:

<form method="post" action="/clothing_s/1814.htm">
<input type="hidden" name="clicked" value="clicked" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Browse Products" />
</form>

There are other ways to get to the page and the Colorbox loads even if I haven’t submitted the form. Is my syntax correct? I am very familiar with conditional structures etc. but am mainly a PHP user so am not sure if I got that entirely right (it looks right in relation to examples I’ve seen that’s why I ask).

Answer 1

Wait wait. Why is your FORM tag looking like this:

    <form method="post" action="/clothing_s/1814.htm">

The action should be targeted to a valid ASP.Net webpage running under IIS. A valid FORM tag may look something like this if you are running ASP.Net page on your own machine (local).

    <form method="post" action="http://localhost:4650/My-ASP.Net-In-IIS/default.aspx">

Rest of the code seems fine, it should work.

Having said that, I am not saying that whatever you have written SHOULD be written this way. You wrote ASP.Net in a PHP style, which is not correct. But it must work at least.

I hope this answers your question. If yes, please mark it as “answered”.