Dear Michael, now I'm reading your reply, I remember I've also used a form wrapping something in the past. But was just a workarround and I wasn't aware of using this sistematically. Also wasn't pretending to define a more general solution like now.
If HTML is limited to not to have controls like those outside forms then the wrapping solution should be atomically and industrially used. By atomic I mean the minimal expression of a control. Now in practice this means to me that I should refactor a wrapper generator of every kind of control that demands a form to exist so it can expectorate healty html. And I understand that this should be made at "atom- level", I mean a little form wraping one control because the (forcibly) injected requeriment to limit the composibility of the controls (to evade the unsuported form nesting). I wonder when will come the day on which HTML becomes what it should for the good of us all? Thanks for your pragmatic reply, cheers ! Sebastian On 2 jul, 14:17, "Michael Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sebastian Sastre wrote: > > Hi there, > > > maybe will sound you naif but I've surprisingly found today that > > someElement.disable() can't be used for elements that are not inside a > > form. > > I don't think it's valid HTML to have form input elements (input, button, > select, etc) outside of a <form> tag. Different browsers handle different > invalid DOM's differently, so I'm not sure you'll have much luck trying to > do this. > > I usually use a dummy form for these kinds of things (not wrapping the > whole doc in a form, cause nested forms aren't allowed either). Just use > small dummy forms for groups of controls: > > <form name="ignoreme"> > <input type="button"....> > </form> > > -- > Michael Peters > Developer > Plus Three, LP --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
