html controls with same ID

1 May 2006 12:59 PM

steven scaife

I am porting an ASP application to ASP.net, in my ASP application i have 4
columns of text boxes, each column of textboxes have the same ID thus
becoming an array when i use the split on them.

In ASP.net however i cannot get the value of the textboxes through the
request.form object. Is there a way to emulate this in asp.net

The reason is because its an electronic purchase order system so i have
boxes for quantity, price, description and code. I have a javascript that
works out the VAT, sub total and the grand total of subtotal + VATtotal.

thanks in advance for any help

2 May 2006 3:23 AM

Steve Goodyear

Each control ID is suppose to be unique, the name attribute may be the same
and produce the array you seek.

You can still use Request.Form in ASP.NET - the proper way to use the
Request.Form index is to access posted elements by their name attribute.

- Steve

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"steven scaife" wrote:

> I am porting an ASP application to ASP.net, in my ASP application i have 4
> columns of text boxes, each column of textboxes have the same ID thus
> becoming an array when i use the split on them.
>
> In ASP.net however i cannot get the value of the textboxes through the
> request.form object. Is there a way to emulate this in asp.net
>
> The reason is because its an electronic purchase order system so i have
> boxes for quantity, price, description and code. I have a javascript that
> works out the VAT, sub total and the grand total of subtotal + VATtotal.
>
> thanks in advance for any help