My form has 3 "plan your route" buttons, one for each office location in the city, and then one set of input fields for the starting address, city, state, zipcode.

When you enter your address and then press one of the buttons it should open a MSN map window showing the map and driving directions to that particular offices location. Instead, it shows the same map and directions no matter which button you push. The only way I can make it work is if I set up 3 different forms that each have their own set of starting address fields but it looks terrible on the screen.

I included the HTML code below and I'm hoping someone can tell me how to make it do what I want it to do.

<div style="text-align:center;">
<!--gem:tlx.tlx.map-->
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<TD ALIGN="center">
<form action="http://maps.msn.com/directionsFind.aspx" method="get" style="margin-bottom:0" target="_blank">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="center"><input name="strt2" type="hidden" value="2801 Youngfield St "><input name="city2" type="hidden" value="Golden "><input name="stnm2" type="hidden" value="CO "><input name="zipc2" type="hidden" value="80401"><input border="0" src="/addon/maps/white_plan_route.gif" type="image">
</TD>
<TD ALIGN="center"><input name="strt2" type="hidden" value="12001 63rd Pl "><input name="city2" type="hidden" value="Arvada "><input name="stnm2" type="hidden" value="CO "><input name="zipc2" type="hidden" value="80004"><input border="0" src="/addon/maps/white_plan_route.gif" type="image">
</TD>
<TD ALIGN="center"><input name="strt2" type="hidden" value="808 S Public Rd "><input name="city2" type="hidden" value="Lafayette "><input name="stnm2" type="hidden" value="CO "><input name="zipc2" type="hidden" value="80026"><input border="0" src="/addon/maps/white_plan_route.gif" type="image">
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="center" COLSPAN="3">
<table border="0" width="550">
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="left" COLSPAN="2"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;">Enter your starting address:</span></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right"><span style="font-size:13px;">Street Address: </span></TD>
<TD><INPUT NAME="strt1" SIZE="30" TYPE="text"></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right"><span style="font-size:13px;">City: </span></TD>
<TD><INPUT NAME="city1" SIZE="30" TYPE="text"></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right"><span style="font-size:13px;">State: </span></TD>
<TD><INPUT NAME="stnm1" SIZE="30" TYPE="text"></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right"><span style="font-size:13px;">ZIP Code: </span></TD>
<TD><INPUT NAME="zipc1" SIZE="30" TYPE="text"></TD>
</TR>
</table>
</TD>
</TR>
</table>
</form>
</TD>
</TR>
</table>
<!--end gem--><!--"''"-->
</div>

Well I don't have a solution.

But I don't think the code is THAT bad.

Thanks...I needed that.

It doesn't look too bad as it is but when I put 3 sets of identical fields so that you could put in your starting address and then 3 more buttons for THAT submit it really does look horrid.

I came up with a drop-down so you could select the destination office you were trying to get to and then I would only have to have the one set of starting address fields and one button for that submit but then I can't seem to pass the values for the destination. I don't know if there is something that prevents you from having two forms on one page or what but my attempts are all failing.

I've been trying to get this working for over a month now and my forehead is getting flat from banging my head against the keyboard in frustration.

First tip, use the web standards it wil make youre pages way better.

And it doesn't work becaus you have all the hidden file's have the same name and they ar in the same form, so every time you "ovverride" an exising name. It wil erase its previous data and input the new data.

I tried renaming the hidden fields to different names and it doesn't change what it is doing at all, it still passes the address in the first line no matter which of the buttons you push.

<TR>
<TD ALIGN="center"><input name="strt2" type="hidden" value="2801 Youngfield St "><input name="city2" type="hidden" value="Golden "><input name="stnm2" type="hidden" value="CO "><input name="zipc2" type="hidden" value="80401"><input border="0" src="/addon/maps/white_plan_route.gif" type="image">
</TD>
<TD ALIGN="center"><input name="strt3" type="hidden" value="12001 63rd Pl "><input name="city3" type="hidden" value="Arvada "><input name="stnm3" type="hidden" value="CO "><input name="zipc3" type="hidden" value="80004"><input border="0" src="/addon/maps/white_plan_route.gif" type="image">
</TD>
<TD ALIGN="center"><input name="strt4" type="hidden" value="808 S Public Rd "><input name="city4" type="hidden" value="Lafayette "><input name="stnm4" type="hidden" value="CO "><input name="zipc4" type="hidden" value="80026"><input border="0" src="/addon/maps/white_plan_route.gif" type="image">
</TD>
</TR> 

It always passes your correct starting address values but the destination ones don't change like they should.

SOLVED...although I can't make this work I finally figured it out using javascript. Thanks for taking the time to try to help me. I really appreciate it.

Even if you have bypassed it, it's a shame not to figure out what you did wrong. My guess would be that putting the form's opening tag inside one table area and other bits of the form elsewhere, is risky.

I prefer to stick the form's opening tag outside all tables (and same with the closing).

I don't know if that will make any difference in your case. It could do. By the way I know that when you parse web data in perl there are times (eg with a checkbox input) where the name of the input must NOT have numbers in it. I recall having to change tonnes of html with numbers so that i put them into words - eg name="thing_two" instead of "thing2".

I think the main area you are going wrong in is the use of aspx. But there's nothing you can do about that!

I think the main area you are going wrong in is the use of aspx. But there's nothing you can do about that!

well given that it's on MSN.com ( maps.msn.com/directionsFind.aspx" ) what would you think they would use?

Okay, I'm just an anti-microsoft guy, I admit it. It's wrong. There's bound to be 1 or 2 situations when you're better off than with a Linux server.

It's not that I didn't know he had a microsoft server (well where else can you use aspx anyway? no wait - i expect that can probably have answers i don't expect) I was just being difficult and anti-microsoft.

Why always the pro/anti microsoft
I use php instead of asp because I started with php.
But why always the whinin about how microsoft "sucks".

There's always ups/downs to everything...
Deal with it