html-form

Best way to implement Google Custom Search on an aspx page

Google custom search code is provided as a form tag. However, Asp.net only allows a single form tag on a page. What is the best way to implement their code so you can include it on an aspx page (say as part of a Masterpage or navigation element). ...

Is my form password being passed in clear text?

This is what my browser sent, when logging into some site: POST http://www.some.site/login.php HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Opera/8.26 (X2000; Linux i686; Z; en) Host: www.some.site Accept: text/html, application/xml;q=0.9, application/xhtml+xml, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, */*;q=0.1 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9 Accep...

What is the best designed form you have ever seen?

I am looking for awesome forms that are easy and intuitive to use even though they may be overly complex. Multi-page is cool too. Screen shots of the forms would be way cool. ...

How do I use jQuery to insert a <DIV> wrapped around a variable number of child elements?

I have ASP.Net code similar to the following (this is inside a FIELDSET): <ol> <li> <label>Some label</label> <one or more form controls, ASP.Net controls, labels, etc.> </li> <li> <label>Another label</label> <... more of the same...> </li> ... </ol> I'm trying to keep my markup as ...

ASP.NET MVC: Best way to get form checkboxes into many-to-many DB assoc table with LINQ To SQL?

Hi, I have an ASP.NET MVC view which contains checkboxes for user-defined categories. <td><% foreach (Category c in (List<Category>)ViewData["cats"]) { if (selCats.ContainsKey(c.ID)) { %> <input name="CategoryIDs" type="checkbox" value="<%=c.ID %>" checked="checked" />&nbsp;<%= c.Name%><% } else { %> <inpu...

How can web form content be preserved for the back button

When a web form is submitted and takes the user to another page, it is quite often the case that the user will click the Back button in order to submit the form again (the form is an advanced search in my case.) How can I reliably preserve the form options selected by the user when they click Back (so they don't have to start from scrat...

Is there a centralized list of country names that can be used for web drop down boxes (and validation)

There are examples online with web select boxes that have a huge list of countries and that probably will be good enough for me to use. However, by Murphy's law, there's bound to be some random country that someone is from and isn't on my list (and probably someone else also ran into this and has updated their local list). Also, when new...

Retrieving saved checkboxes' name and values from database

I have a form with checkboxes, each one has a value. When the registered user select any checkbox the value is incremented (the summation) and then then registred user save his selection of checkbox if he satisfied with the result of summation into database all this work fine ...i want to enable the registred user to view his selecti...

Prevent XSS in HTML forms from third party site

The basics: I have a contact form that uses php to validate the forms. (in addition to client side) This could be done in any server side language though. The server side only allows A-z 0-9 for certain fields (it is acceptable to validate this field to English only with that extremely limited range) If the form contains e...

Place button in a form that does not use the form's URL

I have a regular form with a url as action to which the form submits when the submit button is clicked (or enter is pushed). Now I need a second button that goes to another page. I know I should be using a link for this, but as to client's requirements, it should look like a button. Because the CSS sheets are not made in-house (and commu...

HTML form with multiple hidden control elements of the same name

Is it legal to have an HTML form with more than one "hidden" control element with the same name? I expect to get the values of all of these elements at the server. If it is legal, do the major browsers implement the behavior correctly? ...

How I do to force the browser to not store the html form field data?

When typing in html forms, browsers like firefox or ie store the values, sometimes quietly. So when typing in another webforms, the browser smartly suggest the same information. Another method to show the dropdown list is double-clicking an empty textbox. In a e-commerce website, the customer type the credit card number, and another sen...

Best way to track onchange as-you-type in input type="text"?

In my experience, input type="text" onchange event usually occurs only after you leave (blur) the control. Is there a way to force browser to trigger onchange every time textfield content changes? If not, what is the most elegant way to track this “manually”? Using onkey* events is not reliable, since you can right-click the field and ...

Using embedded standard HTML forms with ASP.NET

I have a standard aspx page with which I need to add another standard HTML form into and have it submit to another location (external site), however whenever I press the submit button the page seems to do a post back rather than using the sub-forms action url. A mock up of what the form relationships is below. Note in the real deployme...

url rewriting + Asp.Net Login Form = Death

Hi, on our site we do url rewriting to generate massive amounts of database generated pages. on every page, there is a Login control for users. like this: Internal aspx page: /DB.aspx?id=123 User visible url: /ABC/123.aspx, /ABC/456.aspx ... (url rewritten) unfortunately, the tag on each page has an action attribute of "DB.aspx?id=123...

How do I get data from a web form?

As a pet project I want to build a program that translate from English to Hebrew. The way I want to make the translation itself is using a web site called morfix. In this site can enter an English word and after pressing the "תרגום" (translate) button the translation is brought. My first choice is to write this program in Java, and I t...

calling javascript from a html form

I am basing my question and example on Jason's answer in this question I am trying to avoid using an eventListner, and just to call handleClick onsubmit, when the submit button is clicked. Absolutely nothing happens with the code I have. Why is handleClick not being called? <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript"> fu...

Django equivalent of PHP's form value array/associative array

In PHP, I would do this to get name as an array. <input type"text" name="name[]" /> <input type"text" name="name[]" /> Or if I wanted to get name as an associative array: <input type"text" name="name[first]" /> <input type"text" name="name[last]" /> What is the Django equivalent for such things? ...

passing parameters to php in a form?

I have the basic html form echoed through php: <html> <body> <?php if (isset($_GET["pk"])) { $pk = $_GET["pk"];} echo '<form action="up.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <label for="file">Filename:</label> <input type="file" name="file" id="file" /> <br /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> </form>';...

How to know where a form came from?

I was wondering is there a way in PHP that you could tell where a form was submitted without using hidden fields or anything of the like where the user would only need to tamper with the html a little? For example i am trying to work out if a form that was submitted was actually on my website or whether the form was saved offline and sub...