Easy question about passing URL Info 1

[Nilgni]

I have an alphabetic index on top of my page and it passes the letter to the next page just fine.

I also put the alpa index on the next page and when the user clicks it passes the letter IN ADDITION to the previous letter.

Here is an example:

A | B | C |D |

User clicks "A"

Link looks like:

http://www.mysite.com?NameStartsWith=A

The page loads with only the names that start with "A"

GREAT! BUT??

Now they click on B

Link now looks like:

http://www.mysite.com?NameStartsWith=ANameStartWith=B

NO GOOD! WHY is the darn thing putting two variables?
How do I wipe out the original "A" paramater

Thanks for the help, thought that I could easily search this out, but found this to be more difficult that I expected.
Keith

 

[Chopstik]

What is the code you are using to create the querystring? Your problem lies in that code.

I know the answer to this is pretty simple, but early on a Sunday morning, I'm not thinking clearly enough yet...

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[Nilgni]

I am using Dreamweaver MX -

I started by using the GO TO RELATED PAGE server behaviour and then adapted it to this:

<A HREF="classmates_filtered.asp?Letter=A<%= MM_keepURL %>">A</A>

Thanks, foggy too LOL

 

[Nilgni]

BTW - I took the 'keep url statement out and test it, it still shows the same problem.

 

[Chopstik]

You appear to have hard-coded Letter=A so that will always be there no matter what you do. Assuming that the variable MM_keepURL is what you are passing to the URL each time, try something like this:

<A HREF="classmates_filtered.asp?<%=MM_keepURL%>">A</A>

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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
- Winston Churchill

 

[Nilgni]

Okay,
I went back and just left the hard coding.
I had two pages that were so much the same that I was testing the wrong page. FOG!

It works now. Thanks, even you get a star for putting me on the right track!

 

[Chopstik]

I've both been there and done that. Glad that you got your problem resolved.

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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
- Winston Churchill