Question

I have a form which is overlayed over the visitors current page using jQuery when the user clicks on a div in the bottom right of a web page. This overlay pulls up an iframe but I need to record the page the visitor clicked from to get to the overlay (essentially the HTTP_REFERER) along with the resolution of the window the user clicked from.

As of now I am attempting to grab this information after the form has been passed, my concern is that the information I will be provided with will not not be correct and will instead give me the window size of the overlay and since it’s a separate iframe won’t be able to grab the HTTP_REFERER. Are these assumptions correct?

Answer 1

Can you create a hidden field in the form?

If so you could then update this hidden field with the url of the page the user came from.

var current_url = window.location.pathname;

$('#myHiddenField').val(current_url);