Re: Using a reentrant form

I honestly don't know why people use the approach of having a hidden field on a re-entrant form to indicate whether it should be validated or not. I have used re-entrant forms for years without such a thing. How? Quite simply there are two phases to a form - GET, which requests a form from the server, and POST, which sends a form to the server. It is therefore quite obvious that I validate on every POST. Simple, isn't it? -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org "Todd Cary" <todd@aristesoftware.com> wrote in message news:D9.28.12809.EE0C6F54@pb1.pair.com... > To validate a page, I set the form value to the page name the user is on. > Then there is a hidden variable, "looped" that is set to "1". By checking > "looped", I know if the user has re-entered the form so I can do my > validation checks. > > Is there a disadvantage to this approach? > > Thank you...