Relative Folder Reference In Form Action Property?
Jul 20, 2005
I am trying to automate some information retrieval on a subscription web service I belong to, and have had much luck with similar sites using the XMLHTTP com to automatically POST the form data. However, in this case, I can't find the submission handler. The line in the form Code:
the goodform() function is a simple client-side character validator, and does not change or alter the form's ACTION property in any way.
I have never seen a relative ference in a form's action property -- didn't know it could be done. AND, the XMLHTTP POST method will not allow a folder reference -- it has to be a specific file.
Any ideas on how I could find the specific filename for the form submission handler? I have triedalmost every variation of a name I can tink of -- all to no avail. I have also looked at other forms on the server, and all refer to a subfolder under the "servlet" folder, but with no specific file name. For example, the searcvh page form would have an
"Action" property of "/servlet/Search"
I have asked the site developer, but they get sketchy about stuff like this, because theoretically, I could allow anyone to access their entire site with just so much as a click of the mouse on my server. I don't want to do that, but it would save enormous amounts of time if we didn't have to do all of this manually.
I have come across a very interesting problem that seems to be impossible to solve. Basically a web application that I am working on relies on a JavaScript function called go to change the input named view to the page name and submit the form. This form's type is post, so no values are included in the actual URL string. There is also another input called action and it's value is view. This is to tell the application that the user would like to view a page. The problem is because of the variables being of method post, page refreshes and back and forwards return errors because the post variables view and action aren't sent with the required data. To somewhat solve this problem I have created a feature that tells the application that if the post value page is empty then to try and get a GET var called page. To insert this var into the go javascript function I simple add this code
This line basically adds &page=[page] to the action of the form. The problem is, this code doesn't work because action is also the name of a form element. Referencing document.go.action refers to the input element named action and not to the form's action. Changing the named of the action input value is out of the question (Way to much changing of code, and possible room for error). What can I do to change the action of the form without referencing the input named action. Here is my go form and the JavaScript code:
I have a very weired problem (which is not easy to describe.. but I'll do my best):I have a html page with several forms , only one of the got the action="ComputeAndReturn" and the other forms got only name="" tag.the problem is that after i submit the form with the action , and than after a computatioon it returns to the original page, now... if i will submit any of the forms without the action=.they will act as if they were defined action="ComputeAndReturn" (altho they are not!)if they were defined from the first time with action="anything", and than i would submit the form with action="ComputeAndReturn" this problem would not appear (the other forms will keep their action="anything" and would not "imitate" the action= "Compute AndReturn" to them selfs...
any ideas how can i keep my forms without action="" , cause all i need them to do is be submitted to pass the submitted value to other form inside that page.[code]
Originally I had the following code. What it does is for a user to type the folder name of their choice and then after clicking submit a window will pop open and they will be taken to "C:folder" (assuming the user typed "folder" and such a folder existed). Here is the code in case I wasn't clear.
I needed access to the form that's being submitted in the options.success() function (in order to hide the form after successful submission). I ended up modifying line 222 in jquery.form.js. I added $form as the third argument for all callbacks, like so:
options.success = function(data, status) { for (var i=0, max=callbacks.length; i < max; i++) callbacks[i](data, status, $form); // added $form as third argument. };
Is there a better way of accessing the form from the callbacks or would the plugin developer(s) consider adding this or another similar modification to the code?
I have a bunch of forms in my page, and want to pass a reference to the current form to a javascript function - when, say, a user clicks on a particular element. Normally, within any type of input field, I'd just add something like this:
onclick="my_function(this.form)"
Then, in my_function( form ) I could refer to form. No worries.
But here's the interesting bit. I also want to run the same function when the user clicks on any <a> tag within a form, like:
I am running some javascript code which generates a popup window associated with a spell checking program. The way the program works, is that it takes the text out of a text field (passed as an object), spell checks the string, then puts it back into the text area field.
My text area is located within a flash form, and I am having trouble pointing to it. I am sure my spell checking program is working, as it works fine if I point to an html text area. Do I have to do something special to point to a flash form object?
I have a form which needs posting the php script below. (I sent my vars to a cookie, which I have read correctly). This is the form command used in hoping to process my information.
Since most of this is new to me, please let me ramble in my thought process.
1. post the vars to a cookie 2. post the form pointing to the php script 3. read the vars in the php script 4. send the info from within the script
When I submit my form, I receive a dialog box stating the downloading this file can be dangerous. What happens is the php script is downloaded to my desktop - not executed. Code:
I'm trying to do some javascript form validation and I've discovered a rather difficult situation to handle with IE.
Let's say there's a form with three input fields named "name", "method", or "length". Whenever my javascript tries to access the form's name or length, and the form happens to have input fields named "name" and "length", I'm actually accessing the input fields and there seems to be no way to access those properties of the form.
I have an easy workaround for form.length, so there's no need to give me a workaround for that one, but there's a bigger issue with fields like name, method, action, etc.
For example, using document.forms[0].name to get the name of the form seems to map to document.forms[0].elements["name"] istead of the actual name of the form. Is there a work around for this? I am writing some generic form validation code, and I can't expect the person implementing my form validation code to avoid using "name" and "length" as names for their form fields.
I have a form with two <button> elements. One button loads the page with the associated form data whilst the other triggers a download. IE6/7 does not handle <button> tags correctly. IE6 will submit all buttons regardless of which you click and uses the button content as the value, instead of the value as the value. IE7 submits just the clicked button, but still submits the content as the value, not the value.
To get around IE's issues with <button> I use JS to manipulate the DOM so hidden input fields are generated with the correct value and the button names are removed so they're not submitted at all.
This works, except in my specific situation for my download button. Because it triggers a download, the page you are on remains, and remains with the manipulated DOM, which means the form doesn't work properly anymore.
I would like to know if there's a trigger of some sort that would allow me to revert the DOM changes when the form is submitted but the page remains. I hope that makes sense. Oh, and there's no need to suggest using <input type="button" /> instead of <button>. That's not a solution.
i have a css/div box, and i have a login form. what im tryn to do is make it so that when i login, it it takes whats in the action of the form and shows it in the div box. the div box is like one of those cool popup boxes, it's done by using javascript and css.
anyway, the div box works. the login form works. i just haven't been able to figure out how to get it to appear in the div instead of into a new page.
I want to change a form action url based on user input, and I used hyperlink to submit a form (since I have lots of rows like this and each has different values passed to javascript select_claim() function.). But it doesn't work! I have very simple php code here, but the it is the javascript problem.
HTML Code: <form action="" method="post" name="smForm" id="smForm"> <table>
I'm having a bit of problem writing some javascript that will dynamically update the 'action' of a form when the form is submitted.
Its for an Image Upload script which performs a binary read on the uploaded image, meaning I have to POST the form, but must pass any additional parameters to the Image Upload script via the querystring.
Code:
My submitform() function needs to set the action of form5 to :
so I have a html page with the following code included in it:
[Code]....
how would I reference the contents of the text box in a separate Javascript file? I have tried document.form.UserInfo.value and many, many variations and just can't get it to work. I presume it has something to do with the paragraph having the same name?
I want to change attribute action in form. Problem is that in that form is also input with name action. Unfortunately renaming of that input is worst case because many servlets depend on it.
This works in konqueror but not in IE and Mozilla:
