I would suggest an absolute positioned iframe or similar. Then make sure that is displayed on top, and do the form in HTML. That would most likely work in FF, Opera and Safari.
Hope this helps /Erik On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:27:18 +0200, sirlemmingviii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had hoped someone more knowledgeable would answer this, but in > short, you don't have many options. SVG 1.2 will support text input, > but most viewers don't implement it yet, and certainly not fully. > > One workaround is to use a Javascript input dialog prompt. It's not > too hard to have the prompt open when someone clicks something and > then pass that data back to the SVG document. Depending on what > you're doing, that may not be elegant enough. > > --- In [email protected], "russellgum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I have an svg document that includes several rectangles that change > color when clicked on >> and a rectangle that sends the color of the rectangles to my server > as a POST message >> using Ajax. What I would like to add is a text input field that the > user could fill in with >> data ( a date) related to the rectangles that changed colors that > could be processed by >> javascript and included with the POST message. In short, what I need > is a way to include >> forms in an svg object. >> >> The only browser I need this to work with is Safari 3. >> >> I tried using an embedded svg file but Safari would not process the > POST message when I >> did this. I thought that maybe I could put the form in the html file > and still have the Post >> work from the embedded svg. >> >> I also thought it might be possible to change the data (a date) with > javascript (by using a >> mouseover on an object to change the date) and display the results > as a text object in svg. >> However, I couldn't figure out a simple way to get the value of a > javascript variable >> displayed in a text object in javascript. Is there a simple way to > do this? >> >> Thanks >> >> Russ -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
