Re: [HTML DOM] Proposal of method query() in HTMLFormElement

What's up with document.forms[0]["engine"].value? Won't that tell you in JS 
which button was pressed?

<button type="submit">... don't think there's such a thing. Try <input 
type="submit"> and my example above.

The "idiotisisms" could be carried out by your server-side code. Check out 
arrays.

I'm not claiming to fully know what you mean in your post but if my first 
impressions are right you just need to learn a few more things about code 
rather than proposing standards.

--Matt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nikodem" <nikn1@gazeta.pl>
To: <www-dom@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 6:13 PM
Subject: [HTML DOM] Proposal of method query() in HTMLFormElement


>
> I've had many problems with AJAX-ing forms that more than one <button 
> type="submit">. It can't be handled through onsubmit with form.elements[0] 
> etc. without such idiotisms like onclick on every button.
>
> I propose method query() that'd return query string 
> (application/x-www-urlencoded).
>
> I.e.:
>
> <form onsubmit="alert(this.query())" action="search.php" method="get">
> <input type="text" name="search" />
> <button type="submit" name="engine" value="1">Google</button>
> <button type="submit" name="engine" value="2">Yahoo!</button>
> <button type="submit" name="engine" value="3">AltaVista</button>
> </form>
>
> <!-- search=xxx&engine=2 -->
>
> interface HTMLFormElement : HTMLElement {
> /* ... */
> DOMString query()
> /* ... */
> }
>
>

Received on Thursday, 11 October 2007 22:20:44 UTC