HTML form coding problem

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005, David Bandel wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I'm trying to code a form.  After the values are entered and the
>"submit" (calculate) button is pressed, I want to go to the results
>section of the form.
>
>So the results section has an anchor that works:
><a name=results>Results</a>
>
>At the end of the form I'm putting:
><INPUT Type="hidden" name=_target VALUE=#results>
>
>When the calculate button is pressed, the end of the URL line shows:
>&_target=%23results
>If I change the %23 to a # sign, it works, but as the %23 it doesn't.
>
>Anyone know how to keep Apache/FireFox/Perl/whoever from changing the # to %23?

I think you're running into an HTML standard in which is encodes
many ``non-standard'' ASCII characters to their hex equivalent.

What tools are you using to process the form?  I think most of
the standard perl/python/php tools have the ability to map these
back to ascii.

Bill
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