onChange action

[_aggregate]

What I have is a form. When the user clicks on a name I want to go to another page which I can then display userinfo. I basically want to do what a submit button do with out having to use one.

[Fernis]

Umm, how can you enter the name, if onClick already submits the page? Oh well,
maybe you're using some iframe technique. Anyway, sounds strange.

You can always assign form an id, and submit it using Javascript.

<form id="myForm" method="post" action="myactionpage.cfm">
Name: <input type="text" name="username"
onClick="document.getElementById('myForm').submit( );">
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Proceed">
</form>

Usability-wise, this doesn't make any sense, but that's what you asked for...
Use <form target="frameName"... if you want to submit the form into another
window/frame.

[_aggregate]

What I'm trying to do is I have a form that has user information, however I
dont know until the user tells me who. My idea behind this would have a form
with all the fields read only except for the user name. When they enter in the
username then I could querry the database and return the users info. Is there
a better way doing this?

[JMGibson3]

Sounds like you might be describing a drop down list and selecting("clicking")
on one of the items. If so you want the OnChange event:
<SELECT CLASS=DataEntryTextNormal NAME="Initials"
onChange="this.form.submit(); return true;">

which also works for radios and checks. It will also work for text fields,
however, for them, the browser won't know they've changed until you refocus
(tab, mouse-click, etc.) to another field.