I think I see where the problem lies...instead of doing a standard submit...it does a top.location.href to change from all properties to a single one. They do a lot of very odd stuff in this application. I certainly wouldn't have chosen to do that.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: Michael Grant [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 14:20 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: custom tag and javascript question Maybe I'm not following along here. How can the JS assign a value to a hidden form field if CF isn't rendering the hidden form field onto the page? Is this hidden form field wrapped in cfoutput? On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Eric Roberts < [email protected]> wrote: > > In the same on change event that causes the page to go from all > properties to an individual property I have it assign the value of a > hidden form field to the value of the infants dropdown...yet when the > page loads, there are no form fields... > > Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Grant [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 12:49 > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: custom tag and javascript question > > > How your cf is set up does little to effect how the javascript will > communicate with other forms. JS will traverse your page in the usual way. > The fact that one form is in a different file than another form > doesn't matter to JS since by the time it gets to the client browser > it's all "one page" as it were. > > How are you trying to get JS to target the forms now? What code is failing? > > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Eric Roberts < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have been running into an issue with not being able to read across > > forms on a site I am working on. The site is set up so that instead > > of using cfinclude, they address pages as custom tags (ie header.cfm > > is called as <cf_header url_val="xx">. The basic setup is there is > > an index.cfm that acts like a driver page that calls the "tags" and > > the called pages may also call "tags" as well. We have a dropdown > > to select with all of the properties or an individual property > > (Hotel properties). We are adding the ability for the hotels, if > > they take this into account, count the number of infants. This form > > field (itself a dropdown) is in a different form that is physically > > located in a different file (which is the parent page that is > > calling the file that the above dropdown live on). In the rendered > > html and javascript, the property section comes before the form that > > has the number of infants. What I am trying to accomplish is that > > when I change the hotel property, I want it to check against a > > session var that determines whether or not that property does an > > infant count and check a hidden form field to see if the value of > > infants is greater than 0. The problem I am having is that the > > hidden field that I have in the form isn't showing up. Does this > > have something to do with the fact that pages are being used as custom tags? > > I have never seen a site structured like this.it's pretty unique and > > not a bad idea, but I am wondering what effects on how variables are > > available to other tags/pages this structure has. > > > > > > > > Here's the basic structure: > > > > > > > > Index.cfm calls call_index.cfm as > > <cf_call_index.cfm>..call_index.cfm > > calls call_index2.cfm as <cf_call_index2>. Form 1 with the property > > dropdown physically resides on call_index2.cfm and form 2 that has > > the infant count dropdown physically resides on call_index.cfm. > > > > > > > > > > > > Anyone have an experience dealing with this kind of structure? > > > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340342 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
