[AccessD] OT: ASP Oddity

Hi Drew,

Yes I use this approach when writing pages that are the ASP version of a
continuous form, e.g., many records listed in form controls.  The
if/else/then structure allows for testing for conditions and then
writing the correct html.  I think I first saw this in one of the ASP
books I use, or it may have been some code I got off the web.  I'll take
it from wherever I find it.

Doug





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Subject: [AccessD] OT: ASP Oddity


Sorry for the OT post, but I ran into this last month, and was just
flabbergasted that this worked this way.

I was doing an ASP sub-contract for my sister, for a jewelry company
(http://edlevinjewelry.com) .  In the HTML of some of the pages, I found
stuff like this:

<% If so.type="merchant" then %>
<b>This is a test</b>
<% End if%>

It wasn't coded (or worded, obviously) like that, but that is the gist
of it.  There was an If Then clause, with regular old HTML in the
middle.  Sure enough, if the criteria isn't met, the HTML isn't
displayed.

I never realized (until I saw that), that you could do that.  Up until
now, I have always done something like this:

<%
If This=True Then
	response.write "<b>Test</b>"
End if
%>

In that case, the ASP is writing out the HTML.  In some cases, it
doesn't make much of a difference.  However, I write most of my HTML by
hand, using the Microsoft Script Editor, which does a lot of
autocompletion, and makes writing raw HTML a breeze.  But when I had to
put out conditional HTML, I lost all of the advantages of the editor,
because I was putting the HTML into a string.  What's odd, is I have
never run across this in ASP documentation.

Once again, sorry for the OT post, but I know there are several listers
out there that are either starting out in ASP, or have been using it for
a while, and hopefully, this will be helpful to ya'all.  Just out of
curiousity, did anyone else know this?

Drew
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