HTML - How to pre-populate form field with known value upon load?

Question

I have this web page, say Home.html, that has links to other employee-related web sites. There is one, say www.SomeSite.com/HR.xyz, where it has a form to login. There are

Answer 1

You could try using a get request to populate the input box in the form. That's only if the url like you said is as such www.SomeSite.com/HR.xyz?company=MyCo. In PHP you would simply include:

" maxlength='50' size="25">

As you can see that within the value attribute is a echo statement that echoes the get request in the URI where HR.xyz?company=MyCo contains the company get request. If you are using just pure html with no scripting language like php the only other method is by having this code: