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In one of my previous posts here I got the information on what I had to do. Now I have a similar problem instead of using a button to do that I have 2 links that when clicked will take you to the same page but depending on the link clicked certain options are going to be grayed out.

I just dont know how to get started on this. If any one can show me a good place to start that would be greatly apreciated.
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Use the disabled attribute.

Start with the basic html portion of a form (named "order"):
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  1. <input type="text" id="quantity" disabled="disabled" />

Then, in JavaScript, you change the attribute to enable the field:
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  1. document.forms.order.quantity.disabled = false;
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I see, but how would it know which one has been clicked, because the two links both link to the same page and dependant of which is clicked the infromation will change.
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Fake the links with form input buttons:
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  1. <input type="button" id="quantity" name="ONE" onclick="javascript:menu1()" /> 
  2. <input type="button" id="quantity" name="TWO" onclick="javascript:menu2()" />
Then use the javascript to first open the window, then enable the proper devices:
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  1. function menu1(){
  2.  theWindow = window.open('theurl.htm', 'theWin', '');
  3.  theWin.focus();
  4.  document.forms.order.quantity.disabled = false;
  5.    .
  6.    .
  7.    .
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I have an ASP page that uses

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  1. sub SetHoursMenu()
  2.   Dim period, empid, url, url2, url3, RS
  3.  
  4.   sub_menu = "<div class=""menu"" id=""submenu-hours"">"
  5.   url = "Hours.asp"
  6.   url2 = "HourMod.asp"
  7.   url3 = "HourMod.asp"
  8.   period = request.QueryString("period")
  9.   if period <> "" then
  10.     url = url&"?period="&period
  11.   end if
  12.   if IsAdmin then
  13.     empid = request.QueryString("empid")
  14.     if empid = "" then
  15.     	Set RS = Conn.Execute("SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY name")
  16.     	empid = RS("id")
  17.     	RS.Close
  18.     	Set RS = nothing
  19.     end if
  20.     if InStr(url, "?") then
  21.       url = url&"&"
  22.     else
  23.       url = url&"?"
  24.     end if
  25.     url = url&"empid="&empid
  26.     url2 = url2&"?empid="&empid
  27.     url3 = url3&"?empid="&empid
  28.   end if
  29.   sub_menu = sub_menu&"<span>"&HyperLink(url, "<img src=""logs.gif"" width=""120"" height=""30"" id=""logsbutton"" />")&"</span>"
  30.   sub_menu = sub_menu&"<span onclick=""javascript:menu1()"">"&HyperLink(url2, "<img src=""img/companyhours.jpg"" width=""120"" height=""30"" id=""addbutton"" />")&"</span>"
  31.   sub_menu = sub_menu&"<span onclick=""javascript:menu2()"">"&HyperLink(url3, "<img src=""img/noncompanyhours.jpg"" width=""120"" height=""30"" id=""addbutton"" />")&"</span></div>"
  32.  
  33. end sub

To generate the URL for the links. My problem is that I dont know how to transfer that URL to the javascript function in order for it to display the page. Otherwise when the function opens a new window it tells me to relogin if it just use the "HourMod.asp" as the url. When the page loads the url is suposed to look something like this:

[HTML]http://....... edtemp/HourMod.asp?empid=1&sid=E3BCB8594C5F8EDF7A86CDD50266B6964196[/HTML]

And by the way is there a way of doing this without opening a new window?
Thanks,
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You could pass the url as a parameter.
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  1. <input type="button" id="quantity" name="ONE" onclick="javascript:menu1(url1.htm)" />
  2. <input type="button" id="quantity" name="TWO" onclick="javascript:menu2(url2.htm)" />

Wouldn't it be easier to just have two versions of the page?
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Yes it would be a lot easier to make two pages but this is what I have to do. This is what I have done on this

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  1.   response.Write "function menu1(txt)"
  2.   response.Write "{"
  3.   response.Write "theWindow=window.open(txt, 'theWin', '');"
  4.   response.Write "theWin.focus();"
  5.   response.Write "document.forms.Hours.nonCompany.disabled = true;"
  6.   response.Write "}"
  7.   response.Write "function menu2(txt)"
  8.   response.Write "{"
  9.   response.Write "theWindow=window.open(txt, 'theWin', '');"
  10.   response.Write "theWin.focus();"
  11.   response.Write "document.forms.Hours.nonCompany.disabled = false;"
  12.   response.Write "document.forms.Hours.nonCompany.checked = true;"
  13.   response.Write "}"

but when I use it with the buttons on the top

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  1. sub_menu = sub_menu&"<span onclick=""javascript:menu1(url2)""><img src=""img/companyhours.jpg"" width=""120"" height=""30"" id=""addbutton"" /></span>"
  2.  
  3. sub_menu = sub_menu&"<span onclick=""javascript:menu2(url3)""><img src=""img/noncompanyhours.jpg"" width=""120"" height=""30"" id=""addbutton"" /></span></div>"

It gives me an error saying that either url2 or url3 is undefined. I dont know weather this is because of the way I am using the the url2/url3 as parameters or something else.

I apreciate your help very much thank you.
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I think I know that my problem is in the fact that I am using a variable and not the actual URL, My question now is if its possible to use that as a parameter because of most of the function tutorials I have looked at always have an exact value and not a variable.
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The url should be in single quotes when passed as a parameter. It is text at that point.

What do you mean you "have to" do it that way? You got a nut for a boss?
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I am having trouble with the URL bieng used as a parameter. Is there a way that I can use javascript to get a value from vbscript and return that value from the vbscript to be used by the java script?

for example:

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  1. <span onclick=""javascript:menu1(VBFUNCTION HERE)"">
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  1.   response.Write "function menu1(txt)"
  2.   response.Write "{"
  3.   response.Write "theWindow=window.open(txt, 'theWindow', '');"
  4. .
  5. .
  6. .

The VBfunction would then return a value that would be used to open the new window. Or open the page in the same window?
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