I have this problem all the time in my rails apps and I still need the correct solution. Whenever a user edits their own record the password field is being populated. I suspect its Firefox as setting @user.password = nil in the edit action doesn't help. The problem is the password confirmation isn't populated so validation fails due to ...
I have a form within another form: <form id="a"> <form id="b"> <input type="submit"> When the submit button is clicked, it seems that the outer form is submitted. Is there a way to target which form is submitted? ...
Help! I'm having trouble wrestling AJAX to work for me. I have a paginated gallery with checkboxes beneath each image and I need to store the checkbox values in session variables if a user moves between the pages, so when they submit the form at any time it will include all checked values across all pages. I'm using this jQuery code: ...
Hi, I have a table with a lot of text inputs like these: (they are marks of tests for a few students). Every field has an associated icon for adding a comment, so when the icon is clicked, a dialog must be shown with a textarea, and then save its value to a hidden input. An example of a mark field: <input class="num" type="text" si...
I have a form_remote working perfectly for the form currency. The only change I want to make is the do away with submit button for a select box. So they just click the correct currency and it submits the ajax request. <%= collection_select(:currency, :set, Currency.find(:all, :conditions => 'primary_source = "ECB"'), :code, :pretty_na...
Suppose I am in the usual situation where there're extra fields in the many2many relationship: class Person(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=128) class Group(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=128) members = models.ManyToManyField(Person, through='Membership') class Membership(models.Model):...
I have a sign-up form that takes several steps. In one of the steps, they fill up some information, and they select some images to upload. The next step, they see a review of their application. What is likely to happen next is that if the user sees something he doesn't like, he will hit the back button to change what's on the form. H...
Many people have written about using Automapper to map domain objects (models) to view models, which I find very interesting and useful, but my question is about how to do the opposite. I understand the complexity of this process and why Automapper doesn't work in that scenario but I have to do that a lot with form posting, specially whe...
I have a huge form (for an internal CMS) that is comprised by several sections, some of them are optional some of them are compulsory. All is under an humungous form (it has to be like this, no ajax, no other ways :-( ) Since in a Dilbertesque way everything get changed every second I was wondering if there is any simple way of groupin...
Hi, I have created a questionnaire in C# and when the user has entered their responses I want to capture the answers and save to the database. I am building the content in codebehind and putting it into a placeholder on the page. I can get a handle on the placeholder PlaceHolder a = (PlaceHolder)FindControl("PlaceHolder1"); But whe...
Hello, I am designing a small webpage targeted for the iPhone/iPod touch. I have a form that requires the user to enter a code. When you tap on the corresponding field, the iphone will automatically set the first letter to caps. Is there any way to avoid this? I want the whole field to be entered in small caps. Thanks ...
I have a rails form with 2 selects where one of them depends on the the selected value of the other. So if I have 3 users and 5 items per user, once a user is selected I want the items selection to contain only the items specific to that user. Sounds pretty straightforward but I'm having a very difficult time getting this working. Her...
I'm trying to add captcha control to a form which is rendered using xml parser. (XML Parser gets all values from database and creates a include file with form which is appended at bottom of required page) This form makes a http post to a different page when submit button is clicked and then that page validates data and submits data to da...
I need to write a delegate for a worker thread that will handle a wide variety of form controls (buttons, textbox, list...) enable method. I'm thinking they must all be derived from a base class that handles the enable property, but I'm not finding any documentation, nor am I sure how to call the method. ...
Is there a non-javascript method to allow a <select> element to show short display text when collapsed and longer text when expanded? I came across the "label" attribute for <option> but it is only supported in IE7+. Example: The expanded menu would display: Philosophy 101 Religious Studies 202 Intro to Meditation 303 Mind and its Po...
I have a form which I need to POST to multiple scripts. How can I do this the simplest way? I know it could be done with Javascript, Curl or Snoopy class, but really which is the most simplest and best way to do this. One of the scripts sends email and it's a php file, the other is hosted elsewhere. Need to collect data on both script...
I have an issue with a task management application where occasionally users close their browsers/tabs and the information which they type goes away because they accidentally close a browser/tab, resulting in the loss of the text which they've entered ( and some can spend half an hour entering in text ). So I have to provide a solution, ...
Im trying to build a form that calculates a total price based on a series of drop down boxes with string values such as "This option costs £30" i know this is not ideal but im putting this together as a hack for an existing script For the most part ive got it working however im not sure how to run the each function for each child of #pr...
Hi, I have the following models and I'd like to use them to generate a contact form...now I know I'm suppossed to use inline formsets, but I've never been able to make heads or tails of how to make this work...I want to have the first name, last name, email, phone number, best time to contact, and the message in my view. class BestTi...
I did some stuff to have to_param return a perma-url so I'd have seo friendly links. Upon creation and update it will generate and return the perma-url in a to_param method that I put in the model. However this causing me some grief in other areas. I have a form that looks like this: <% @apps.each do |app| %> <% fields_for "[id][...