HTML form coding problem

[Ronnie Gauthier]

Its possible that if you quote the attribute then it might not get encoded.


On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 19:05:52 -0500
David Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> 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?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> David A. Bandel
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