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Passing the Referrer in a Form

Saturday March 7, 2009
JavaScript can find out what page a visitor was on last provided that your visitor is prepared to let you know

If you want to know where your visitor came from before they got to the page with a form on it that you want them to fill out you can add a hidden field to the form to pass the document.referrer.

Passing the Referrer in a Form
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December 13, 2008 at 1:42 pm
(1) Knxznono says:

Thanks!,

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