passing a hard coded value from a link to a field on a form

I have a link on page that I want to use to pass a hard coded value from the link to a field on a form on another page.

For example when someone clicks <a href="contact.html?Comments=Big%20Red%20Shoe">Email for More Info</a> I'd like the value "Big Red Shoe" to carry over and pre-populate the Comments field of the form on the contact.html page.
Any thoughts on the best way to accomplish this?

 

What do you have to work with? php? asp?

 

I'm primarily a web designer, but am somewhat familiar with javascript and php.

 

In case anybody else ever needs this here's what I figured out.

Link:
<a href="contact.html?Comments=Big Red Shoe">Email for More Info</a>

Text Field:
<input type="text" name="Comments" value="<?= $_GET['Comments'] ?>">

Text Area:
<textarea name="textfield" cols="30"><?= $_GET['Comments'] ?></textarea>

 

Sorry, been away from the computer this afternoon/evening. I was going to suggesting something along those lines Glad you found it!

 

hmmm, just for an add on, if it's ASP.NET, it would be..

a href="contact.aspx?Comments=Big%20Red%20Shoe">Email for More Info</a>

...

string commentValue = Request.QueryString["Comments"];


lblTest.Text = commentValue; (make sure lblTest is already declared)

Code (markup):