response.write URL

[s_mccoy]

I have a page which lists conferences and events which the company for which I
coded the site attends or hosts themselves. They want to be able to continue
to list the conferences and events after the date but they want the link
removed. I've been able to get an if then else to filter out the links but I
can't get the link properly written into the page using response.write. The
quotation marks for the HTML attributes are interfering with the quotation
marks for the server side call for the URL listed in the database. I've
attached the code I've got partially working below. If anyone has any ideas as
to how I might fix this code or perhaps a better approach to the problem I'd
appreciate it.



<td><h3><span
class="green_hghlt"><%=(rs_conferences.Fields.Item ("confDate").Value)%> -
<%=(rs_conferences.Fields.Item("confLocation").Val ue)%></span><br />
<span
class="blue_hghlt"><%=(rs_conferences.Fields.Item( "confTitle").Value)%></span></
h3>
<p><%=(rs_conferences.Fields.Item("confSummary").V alue)%></p>
<% if rs_conferences.Fields.Item("confLink").Value <> " " then
Response.Write "<div id=" & "css_button" & "><p><a href=" &
"(rs_conferences.Fields.Item(" & "confLink" & ").Value)" & " target=" &
"_blank" & " class=" & "link_highlight" & ">sign up for the
conference...</a></p></div>"
end if %>
</td>

[s_mccoy]

*bump* Anyone know of a fix for this problem?

[s_mccoy]

*bump* I really gotta get his issue resolved. Does no one know how to do this?

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(s_mccoy)

>[...] The
>quotation marks for the HTML attributes are interfering with the quotation
>marks for the server side call for the URL listed in the database. I've
>attached the code I've got partially working below. If anyone has any ideas as
>to how I might fix this code or perhaps a better approach to the problem I'd
>appreciate it.

I'm not familiar with ASP, so this is just a wild guess ...

[...]
Response.Write "<div class='css_button'><a href='" &
rs_conferences.Fields.Item("confLink").Value &
"' target='_blank'>sign up for the conference</a></div>"
[...]

Three additional changes I made:

* 'css_button' should most likely be a class, not an ID as it was in
your code (an ID has to be unique throughout a document).
* The paragraph inside of the div is not necessary, styling can be
applied with the class 'css_button'.
* The class 'link_highlight' can most likely be removed. If you have to
style the link you can do it in your CSS with

.css_button a {...}

And I would also remove the target attribute, because opening new
windows sucks. But that's just my personal opinion.

HTH
Micha

[s_mccoy]

Micha,

It turns out that the first div is not necessary. I think it was left behind
when I rewrote the way the buttons worked to fix another issue elsewhere on the
site. I still need the <p> tag to force that particular button to sit where it
does. If I pad the button it breaks buttons elsewhere on the site. Either
way, after doing a little clean up it didn't resolve my issue with the dynamic
a href (no surprise there). Thanks for your reply though.

[s_mccoy]

Never mind, problem solved. If anyone runs across this issue, you have to
declare the recordset as a variable and call the variable. if you try to call
the recordset twice, asp will ignore the second call. If you use a variable it
only makes the connection once and reuses the value wherever you need to. In
the case above I simply added <blockquote> confLinkURL =
(rs_conferences.Fields.Item("confLink").Value)</blockquote>and replacced all
instances of (rs_conferences.Fields.Item("confLink").Value) with confLinkURL.