Remembering Form data

[Carl J]

I'm just wondering, if it's possible for a form to remember it's data?
I have a form with several text boxes, as well as 2 dropdowns, one for
country, and one for provinces and states.
When the user selects a Country, this.form.submit() is called, which basicaly
refreshes the page, and loads up all of the provinces or states for that
country that was selected.
However, if there was any data in the textboxes, it would be lost.

Right now, to restore the data, I'm using:
<cfif form.second_email eq "">
<input type="text" size="20" name="second_email" />
<cfelse>
<input type="text" size="20" name="second_email" value="#form.second_email#"/>
</cfif>

This works, but I'm hoping for something cleaner, or for something that was
made for situations like this.

Thanks,
Jay

[_jt]

> I'm just wondering, if it's possible for a form to remember it's data?

> I have a form with several text boxes, as well as 2 dropdowns, one for
> country, and one for provinces and states.
> When the user selects a Country, this.form.submit() is called, which

basicaly

> refreshes the page, and loads up all of the provinces or states for that
> country that was selected.
> However, if there was any data in the textboxes, it would be lost.
>

I usually use something like this

<cfparam name="form.primary_email" default="">
<cfparam name="form.second_email" default="">

<cfoutput>
....
<input type="text" size="20" name="primary_email"
value="#form.primary_email#"/>
<input type="text" size="20" name="second_email"
value="#form.second_email#"/>
.....
</cfoutput>

[deepu_verma]

You can use
<cffrom preservedata="yes"