Re: FORM successful submit element?

On 8/10/08, Joćo Eiras <joao.eiras@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi.
>  Opera probably gives the info you want because Opera supports WebForms 2,
> and in web forms you can have several submit buttons with different actions.
> It seems the other browsers have this behavior undefined.
>

Really?

I guess the only use case for that would be submitting to different domains.

Taking that successful submit param on the server, all that is needed
is a simple RequestDispatcher.

WF2/HTML5 - Too many new features while there are things in HTML that
still don't work in IE or Webkit.

Opera needs to get some basicthings in order before implementing these
new things. For example:

<form><input name="toString"></form>

javascript:try{ alert(document.forms[0].elements); } catch(ex) { alert(ex); }

Opera: Error: Object doesn't implement [[Call]].

Because Opera tries to call the 'toString' property off of the
'elements' object. It should not do this, but should have an internal
method that safely converts the HTMLCollection to a string.

Garrett

>
>
>  On , Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > How to identify the submit button when a form was clicked?
> >
> > The form below has three elements that can be used to submit the form.
> > If the form is submitted, it could be that one of the buttons would be
> > the cause, and, in that case, that button should be included in the
> > query string.
> >
> > The browsers seem to have an internal mechanism for determining which
> > button is successful. Is the form's successful button exposed in the
> > DOM?
> >
> > <form action="" id="theForm">
> >  <input name="text" value="blah">
> >
> >  <input id="submit" name="submit" value="submit form here" type="submit">
> >  <input id="submit2" name="submit2" value="submit form there"
> type="submit">
> >  <input id="submit3" name="submit3" value="submit form elsewhere"
> > type="image" alt="[submit elsewhere]" src="missing.null">
> > </form>
> > <script>
> > document.getElementById('theForm').onsubmit = function(e)
> {
> >   alert(e.relatedTarget.type);
> > };
> > </script>
> >
> > Opera: "image", et c.
> > IE8, FF3, Safari 3: Error
> >
> > When the form is submitted, how to determine if and which submit input
> > was the cause?
> >
> > Garrett
> >
> >
>
>
>
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Received on Sunday, 10 August 2008 17:59:54 UTC