I am new to web2py and wondering how i can manipulate elements in a form. This form is in the view file with the form tags all hand coded in html without using the web2py helpers. Now when an user submits this form, i would like to make some decisions based on the user posted information (I could understand how to do this) by writing python code in controller. And then i want to change some of the elements in the form. For example, i want to disable all radio buttons in the form and want to change some text color in the form.
I see that there is a .element() and .elements() functions to do DOM searching. But on what object will i do this search ?. What is the handle for the DOM tree structure ?. Is there an object created in memory for my form when the user submits the form ?. What will be this objects name. It doesn't seem to be same as my form name. I tried a few things and they didn't work. I think in javascript, the client side DOM is accessed as document.getElementbyID(...). Similarly, like the document object, what is the name of the object that represents the entire html page and the object that represents the form within in the server side ? Thanks in advance... --Bhaskar --
