forms

using form data as text

i am trying to use form data outside of just form elements. i want to show form data as normal text. controller: @addresses = ['Billing', 'Shipping'] @addresses.each do |a| addresses.build(:address_type => a) end then within my form...for example...(haml) - fields_for :addresses do |a| a.address_type #to just render 'Billing...

how to call a windows form's function from another windows form's event ?

I am developing a windows based application in .net. I have two forms. Form2 is instantiated and displayed when an event occurs in form1. public partial class Form1 : Form { ... private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { .... } public void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { ...

Is the use of a <br/> tag between a <label> and its <input> good practice?

The fields in my form have a label, some help text, some example text, and some contextual text. <!--With Help and Example--> <li> <label for="ingredients">Ingredients</label> <br/><!--Is this good practice?--> <span class="help">Enter one ingredient per line.</span> <br/> <textarea id="ingredients" name="ingredients...

Route to nested model/form for unsaved parent

I have a complex form for a model Schedule that belongs to a parent Listing model: class Listing < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :schedules, :dependent => :destroy accepts_nested_attributes_for :schedules, :allow_destroy => true, :reject_if => :all_blank ... end class Schedule < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :listing ... end ...

HTML Forms - Prevent some users checking a checkbox

Hi I have a form that users fill in . Acording to the level of access they have, I want to prevent some of my form being filled in. If I have a text box I use this onfocus='blur() with a bit of php to check the users privileges .But this does not work for a checkbox. Can anybody suggest how I can prevent a user from checking a checkbo...

Submit form with anchor + javascript - bad practice?

Dear Knowledge Base, I currently have two anchor tags sending url queries to put votes inside a database, but i want to switch to using forms to keep the urls clean and avoid duplicate queries (not really an issue, but makes it look ugly). Now the anchors need to contain a span-tag inside to add additional background elements to the b...

How to post a purely HTML form via ASP.NET

When posting a form in ASP.NET, it adds container information to the request form keys For example if you have a Textbox field with an ID of: txtFullName It could end up posting something like this: ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_txtFullName This is fine if you control the page where you are posting to but if you are posting to someone els...

Security: Form Submission + javascript/jQuery

Question: What is best practice for form submissions while keeping in mind security? This may be a n00b question but I'm concerned that people might be able to alter some data as its being submitted. Take my example: I have a form that has a hidden input that stores a user's unique Facebook ID. I take that Facebook ID and create a use...

Why use SSL with auth ticket when both encrypted and integry checked?

I'm reading about how to protect Forms Authentication and have som questions. 1) When the authentication ticket is both encrypted and integrity checked, is there any reason to still use SSL? If I understand this correct, a hacker can't read the ticket's data in plaintext since it's encrypted, and modifying the data will throw an except...

Ruby on Rails customer-facing formbuilder?

I have a customer that wants to build their own questionnaires. Something like WuFoo (www.wufoo.com) but more secure and contained within the app. I've looked at Smerf (http://github.com/springbok/smerf) which provides the yaml-to-form conversion, but I'd like something the user can use to create their own forms. ...

I want to pass form data from my website to a website not owned by me.

I want to create a donation form on my website that forwards donors to the PayPal donation page at wikileaks.org. Wikileaks allows donations targeted for specific causes that Wikileaks supports. My website is fundraising for one of these causes. My form won't pass any secure information like credit card #s, etc. I want it to send only t...

Initial Data for Django Inline Formsets

I have put together a form to save a recipe. It makes use of a form and an inline formset. I have users with text files containing recipes and they would like to cut and paste the data to make entry easier. I have worked out how to populate the form portion after processing the raw text input but I cannot figure out how to populate th...

Can't access form element in IE because it 'is undefined'. Works ok in FF and Chrome

It's strange because I only get 1 error in IE: 'sTime is undefined'. sTime is the ID of one of the many input elements in my form. Everything works fine in Chrome and FF. Here's a link to the code: http://la.truxmap.com/sched.html and the form html: <form id="addNewTruck" class='updateschedule' action="javascript:sub(sTime.value, e...

jQuery: how to get "value" of file upload input field

Is it possible to determine if the user has selected a file for a particular input type="file" field using javascript/jQuery? I have developed a custom fieldtype for ExpressionEngine (PHP-based CMS) that lets users upload and store their files on Amazon S3, but the most popular EE hosting service has set a max_file_uploads limit of 20. ...

Is it possible to have a custom google-doc spreadsheet form Success page?

Maybe someone somewhere is written a Ajax wrapper to handle google spreadsheet's api? I've managed to take their form's html and style it to fit my website's theme, but the success page always loads with the standard blocky feel of google. Any ideas? ...

Go to page based on two menu selections

Javascript noob here (I'm assuming I will need Javascript to solve this). I need to make a page which directs a user depending on the selection they make from two dropdown lists. Lets say I have a form with two lists: A contains <option>1</option> <option>2</option> <option>3</option> B contains <option>1</option> <option>2</optio...

How to hook into a field in the create content page in Drupal?

I am building an idea capture website from the Array Shift installation profile of drupal and I'm trying to create a similar entry lookup for when a user starts to create a new idea. Is there a way I can detect when the user is typing text into the title field of the create new idea form (a new content type I created in cck) and then, us...

Is there a way to ignore form response?

Is there a way to specify a form either through type or action url to not open the response? In other words I would like to send the info to the server, but not do anything on the client. I know I can use ajax and ignore the response, but I would like to avoid adding all the js to my code if possible. Edit: I didn't mean to limit myself...

Sending an OWA logon form from Java

Hi, I am interested in a way to programmatically log into OWA (Microsoft Outlook Web Access - a web-based email client) from Java code and retrieve nothing more than the inbox unread count -- I can read this number from the inbox web page's HTML source - but the problem is getting there - logging in. Essentially, from looking at the HT...

In Drupal, how do you get the submit button to appear last on a create content form?

In Drupal, how do you get the submit button to appear last on a create content form without making the entire form from scratch? I can set the weight of the submit button using code, but it never goes below any custom fields I've created. If I drag a lot of custom fields from the bottom of the form to the top, the submit button only stay...