accessing html fields

[Jessica Weiner]

I have an input field defined outside the <form> area. Its a simple html
text input that is used to enter the number of hours.

<input id="HoursField" name="hours" type="text" />

I want to access this field from the server side (c# code). I tried these
two methods to access the field but they dont work. Please help.

String[] tempArray;
tempArray = Request.Form.GetValues("hours");
Response.Write (tempArray[0]);

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string val = Request.QueryString["hours"].ToString();
Response.Write (val);


Jessica

 

[Scott M.]

All form fields MUST be within the <FORM> element, otherwise their
name/value pair are not posted to the server when the form submits.

Also, if you only have one element named "hours" and it is a textbox, it
will not return an array, it will just return one value.

This code will do it:

String hoursValue;
hoursValue = Request.Form("hours");
Response.Write (hoursValue);

Or, you could define the input like this:

<input id="HoursField" name="hours" type="text" runat="server" />

and your server code would simply be:

String hoursValue;
hoursValue = HoursField.Text;
Response.Write (hoursValue);