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

I like the idea too, but the name "query" is too short and may colide with  
existing content.

Matt Dockerty <matt@nistrum.co.uk> escreveu:

>
> Another member of the list pointed out I'd completely misunderstood your  
> last email so apologies for my last reply. I understand what you mean  
> now and agree it's needed. My only comment would be that this seems like  
> something which would be best housed in the event data for the onsubmit  
> event since that's when it would become valid to access it.
>
> --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 Friday, 12 October 2007 14:11:21 UTC