>> <form id="one" >
>> // lots of widgets
>> <div id="foo" />
>> // lots more widgets
>> </form>
>> <form id="two" drawAt="foo">
>> // one little widget?
>> </form>
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
Here's mine, assuming you don't mind the "sub"-form elements to be
submitted (and perhaps ignored) if the "outer"-form gets submitted, and
assuming that you don't have so many parameter that the following
becomes intractable:
<form name="MainForm" ... >
<!-- blah blah blah -->
<input type="text" id="email" ... />
<input type="button"
onclick="
document.NewEmailForm.email.value
= document.getElementById('email').value;
document.NewEmailForm.submit();"
value="Add Email" />
<!-- blah blah blah -->
</form>
<form name="NewEmailForm" ... >
<input type="hidden" name="email" />
</form>
i.e. create all your forms, non-nested (since you can't nest 'em, hehe),
and then use JavaScript to populate and submit the appropriate form as
needed.
Also, if you only have a few simple form-parameters, and you know the
URL you're going to be submitting to, you could do away with the
separate form entirely by using a GET submission -- i.e. encode your
parameters into the URL. Refactoring the above example:
...
<input type="button"
onclick="window.location='...?email=' +
document.getElementById('email').value;" />
...
Jim Steinberger
Dynamic Edge, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:43 PM
To: 'Tapestry users'
Subject: Slightly OT, General HTML Form Question
Hi folks,
I was wondering if anyone out there had found a way to solve
a
particular problem I've been dancing around for the last few weeks.
I've got a big form e.g.
<form>
// lots of widgets
// one little widget
// lots more widgets
</form>
Sometimes, I need to submit the big "uber" form in all its
30
widgets worth of glory.
Sometimes though, if the user pushes, for example, "add new
email address", all I really want to do is submit the "emailAddress"
widget,
add the address to the Set on the server, and then re-render the page.
In
the best of all possible worlds, I'd like to be able to do this:
<form id="one" >
// lots of widgets
<form id="two" >
// one little widget
</form>
// lots more widgets
</form>
As we all know though, that's a non starter in HTML :-).
Can anyone suggest a way I can "stuff" a small form inside a
larger one? I was thinking perhaps I could do something with CSS and
positioning? I'm not the world's best CSS guy unfortunately (I still
table
layout virtually everything), but is there any way to do something like:
<form id="one" >
// lots of widgets
<div id="foo" />
// lots more widgets
</form>
<form id="two" drawAt="foo">
// one little widget?
</form>
Any other suggestions?
--- Pat
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