I have a simple html form. When the form is submitted, the page is refreshed and the input is appended to the url.
<form>
<input name="q" type="text" />
</form>
For example, the original URL is:
file:///Users/Download/dd.html
When the form is submitted, the URL becomes
file:///Users/Download/dd.html?q=ccc
I want to add a flag to let the backend knows where the request is from. Is it possible to add a flag into the header?
If not, I want to add &global to the end of the URL, so the url becomes file:///Users/Download/dd.html?q=ccc&global I tried to set the value of the input, but it will change what displayed in the page.
I am wondering if it is possible to add a flag into header, so my backend java code can handle it. Or, add the flag to the end of the URL.
Thanks a lot!
You cant add headers with a form but you can add other params to the form with a hidden input
<input type="hidden" name="global" value="" />
If you really want to add headers you will have to use javascript and ajax.
Keep in mind that once you use params in the url a user can either refresh the page or manually add the params which may not be what you expected.
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I want to make a post API call from a anchor HTML tag and URL will be included in the href.
How can i attach the body parameters.
<a href='http:/test_url:5002/api/GetFile'></a>
And in this I want to send the body parameters in the call as well.
I want to find a way to include this in the html tag itself, not in the javascript file.
Help will be appreciated.
Links are designed to GET a URL. You cannot make a POST request directly with them.
Use a form with a submit button instead.
Thats what forms are for. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/form
Just create a form with a submit button. You can also specify if you want to open the requested URL in a new tab with the target attribute.
This is a way you could do it
<form method="POST" action="/api/PostFile">
<!-- with input in between -->
<!-- and a submit button-->
</form>
there's only one way for you to POST data with a link... you would need to wrap the code in a <form> and use that link to submit the form, for example:
<form id="frm" ation="http:/test_url:5002/api/GetFile">
<input type="hidden" name="param1" value="value_for_param1" />
...
...
</form>
any input can be used to append parameters to the <form>, as an example, the hidden is used
now, remember that you shouldn't use http:/test_url:5002 just minimize to /api/getfile or you would most likely get caught into CORS issues
In my website I want to allow to return from 'itemY' page to 'topicX' page.
I don't want to add a get parameter:
mysite.com?ref=topicX
I'm not sure if using document.referrer is the right way.
Also 'itemX' can be reached directly from Google so it doesn't have to show the return link.
Can you add a form with a hidden field on the page. The value of the hidden form field would be the url of the location you want to return to. Then just check for the presence of this hidden form field using js?
<form id="myForm">
<input type="hidden" id="goTo" name="goTo" value="topicX" />
</form>
I have searched Unbounce and Google for documentation, but can't find a way to make this work. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Use case:
I have a test page setup in Unbounce and it would be great when a user lands on the page and submits the form that the value being generated through the script below in the hidden field is added to the current URL upon submission.
It's important that if the user lands on the page from an advertising campaign that the value is added to URL and does not replace it.
Example:
User lands on testpage.com or testpage.com?qs=3134728&pcd=THANKS20&dclid=CNi4wvCv39cCFZdFNwodE_wALA
Unique ID is created with the following JavaScript and added to a hidden field:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var id = new Date().toISOString().replace(/[-tTzZ:.]/g, '');
$('#lead_id').val(id);
});
</script>
User clicks submit and and is redirected to a thankyou page with the value of the hidden field passed in the URL:
testpage.com/thank-you?lead_id=1234
testpage.com/thankyou?qs=3134728&pcd=THANKS20&dclid=CNi4wvCv39cCFZdFNwodE_wALA&lead_id=1234
I should also mention that I can not edit the html of the form so this would need to happen with JavaScript as Unbounce provides a space to add custom code.
Is the form method get? If it is post it wont append that to the URL for the hidden field.
Your approach seems right however if this is the HTML on page:
<form action="http://example.com" method="get" id="theForm">
<input type="hidden" value="xyz" />
<button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>
You can use some JS code like one of the following to modify this...however you'll want to verify that everything still works as expected:
document.getElementById('theForm').action = "http://another.example.com";
document.getElementById('theForm').method = "get";
I have a html link which opens a Smartsheet form in new window so our online customers can fill out the form.
I would like to pass the value of a TextField (product name or product code) in my existing form to my smartsheet form. This would help my customers as they would not have to write the product name or product code a second time.
I have the following javascript to generate the URL that links to the Smartsheet form.
<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
var productName="productName.firstChild.nodeValue";
var sampleLink= "Order Sample!";
document.write(sampleLink.link("https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form?EQBCT=fbab5300a6d74cc58ae6326e267b3c4f/label.clsCaptionBold.clsFieldLabel/79019814="+productName));
// ]]></script>
The HTML code for the TextField is below:
<div class="clsField clsTextField"><label onclick="" class="clsCaptionBold clsFieldLabel" for="79019814">Product Name</label><br>
<input type="text" id="79019814" name="79019814" maxlength="4000" value=""></div>
I don't know if my javascript code is correct but when I click the link in the page I get the following message:
the form you are attempting to access is no longer active
What is the correct way to send data to a Smartsheet form?
Can I auto populate form data in a Smartsheet form?
Yes! :-)
How do I populate the form data in a Smartsheet form?
Option 1: Set a default value in the form
If the form data is always the same you can set a default value in Smartsheet's form editor. The screenshot below gives an example of this by setting the default value to 1 for the quantity.
Option 2: Pass a value in the link
A default value can be sent to the form by modifying the link and passing the value in the URL. This can be accomplished by using the field caption (in red below) for the key. For example, if my form looked like the following image I can pass in the quantity by modifying the form URL and adding &Quantity=2 to the end of the URL (note it is case sensitive).
The full URL would look something like https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form?EQBCT=ded979748e9a4a200ff56a46a6e3afae&Quantity=2
Also, the field caption might have spaces or other special characters so it is important to URL encode these as well. For example, If I wanted to pass the "Product Name" in the URL I would add &Product%20Name=laptop to the URL.
Answering the Original Question
To answer the original question, you will want your URL to look like the following to send the Product Name.
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form?EQBCT=fbab5300a6d74cc58ae6326e267b3c4f&Product%20Name=driveway
This url can be dynamically generated by building the URL with javascript or passing the data via your own custom form. Since you are using a form in your example I will show that approach (which does not require javascript).
<form action="https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form" method="GET" >
<input type="hidden" name="EQBCT" value="fbab5300a6d74cc58ae6326e267b3c4f" />
<label for="productName">Product Name</label>:
<input type="text" name="Product Name" value="">
<input type="submit" name="Send" />
</form>
Note that I added a hidden element containing the EQBCT key that was in the original URL.
I need to change the form to a single link instead of post as below:
Instead of http://example.hu/search.php?product=shoes
I want the form to lead user only to http://example.hu/products/shoes
I have fixed the rewrite and everything. Only I need the help with the form in the homepage. Thanks for your help.
You need to change the form up a little. Instead of using the action parameter on <form> to send the user along, instead you'll need to drop the form tag and do some javascript trickery to make the url like you want. Here's an example that uses jquery, but it could also easily be done in vanilla JS. http://jsfiddle.net/7czFq/
The answer to my question was this:
Just go to this form action + name using javascript when submit is pressed, like this:
<form>
<div><input type="text" placeholder="Search for a something..." name="q">
<button type="submit" onclick="window.location.href = this.form.action + encodeURIComponent(document.getElementsByName('q')[0].value); return false; ">Search</button></div>
</form>
The form will send user to a URL like http://localhost.hu/search/q/