HTML forms - input type submit problem with action URL when URL contains index aspx

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I have a HTML form that truncates the action parameter after the     mark - which is NOT the desired behavior I am looking for   Here is a representative HTML snippet    lt form action  http   spufalcons com index aspx tab gymnastics amp path gym  gt       lt input type  submit  value  SPU Gymnastics   gt   lt  form gt    In this case  the submit button takes you to the  http   www spufalcons com index aspx  page  effectively ignoring   tab gymnastics amp path gym  parameter   It appears that all HTML and PHP pages referenced in the action URL work as expected   This behavior is consistent across all major browsers  IE  FF  Safari  Chrome  Opera    Has anyone seen this problem before   Or can suggest an alternative and or workaround consistent with my  pure  CSS HTML PHP web development approach   I have tried replacing the special characters with HTML entity values with no impact   I REALLY don t want to use abandon my CSS-styled submit buttons by using Javascript or button PNG s or image maps   Environment    Web Server  Apache 2 2 14 PHP  5 2 10 OS  Mac OS X 10 5 8 HTML document info   lt  DOCTYPE html PUBLIC  -  W3C  DTD XHTML 1 0 Transitional  EN   http   www w3 org TR xhtml1 DTD xhtml1-transitional dtd  gt   lt html xmlns  http   www w3 org 1999 xhtml  gt    TIA -- Trent

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I applied CSS styling to an anchored HREF attribute fully emulating the push button behaviors I needed  hover  active  background-color  etc   etc     HTML markup is much simpler a-n-d eliminates the get post complexity associated with using a form-based approach    lt a class  GYM  href  http   www spufalcons com index aspx tab gymnastics amp path gym  gt Gymnastics lt  a gt

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Use method POST then it will pass key amp value

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This appears to be my  preferred  solution    lt form action  www spufalcons com index aspx tab gymnastics amp path gym  method  post  gt    lt div gt   lt input type  submit  value  Gymnastics  gt  lt  div gt      Sorry for the presentation format - I m still trying to learn how to use this forum      I do have a follow-up question  In looking at my MySQL database of URL s it appears that  30  of the URL s will need to use this post div wrapper approach  This leaves  70  that cannot accept the  post  attribute  For example    lt form action  http   www google com  method  post  gt     lt div gt       lt input type  submit  value  Google   gt     lt  div gt  lt  form gt    does not work  Do you have a recommendation for how to best handle this get post condition test  Off the top of my head I m guessing that using PHP to evaluate the existence of the     character in the URL may be my best approach  although I m not sure how to structure the HTML form to accomplish this   Thank YOU

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Put the query arguments in hidden input fields    lt form action  http   spufalcons com index aspx  gt       lt input type  hidden  name  tab  value  gymnastics    gt       lt input type  hidden  name  path  value  gym    gt       lt input type  submit  value  SPU Gymnastics   gt   lt  form gt

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