forms

Fix or workarount for jQuery dialog in IE6 - major layout issues when the dialog contains a form

I'm working with a jQuery dialog that contains a form. In ie6, there are a couple unexplained inches of padding above the form. When I eliminate the form from the markup, the most serious layout problems go away. I've tried it with no theme (default), Flora, and my themeroller theme and they all seem to have the same problem. I've tried...

Define css class in django Forms

Assume I have a form class SampleClass(forms.Form): name = forms.CharField(max_length=30) age = forms.IntegerField() django_hacker = forms.BooleanField(required=False) Is there a way for me to define css classes on each field such that I can then use jQuery based on class in my rendered page? I was hoping not to have to m...

Solution for e-Forms engine

My client is asking for a solution that handles e-forms generation to be done by a technology-savvy user (not a developer). In other words, An e-form engine for dynamic creation and implementation of electronic forms. Is there any tool/solution in the market available that handles this requirement? I would love to avoid building it fro...

Connecting a form to a Javascript Object (and other best practice advice)

Hi guys, I've been using javascript to do lightweight functionality on sites for years - DOM manipulation etc - but just now im beginning to investigate using it to do a lot more of the heavy lifting (in combo with PHP). I've only just started getting into OO JS, and im still trying to get my head around the best-practices and design pa...

How to make this jQuery function more elegant?

On my page I have a drop-down select box, with a default value of (empty). When the user selects an entry, the appropriate form for that entry type is displayed. Couple of problems.. The code is not DRY and seems more verbose than it needs to be, so not easily maintainable / extensible. When a user selects something, fills in the form...

.net mvc and editing data with forms

I have a form for editing gigs. The initial controller action is called "Edit". The form posts to a second controller action called "Update" So, once the form has posted, I use a bespoke ModelBinder which uses bindingContext.ModelState.AddModelError to add validation messages to the modelstate The Update copntroller action looks this...

How can I post data (form) to html page and hijacking the data in the middle?

the site addres: http://www.ynet.co.il/YediothPortal/Ext/TalkBack/CdaTalkBack/1,2497,L-3650194-0-68-544-0--,00.html fill the form with rubbish. Hit 'Send' the form post the data to another HTML without any parsing of the data i've just added How do they do it? ...

jquery html attribute not working in IE

I am using country and state dropdowns in my form. Whenever the user selects the country in the dropdown, the respective states of the country will populate in the states dropdown. I am populating the states in the dropdown using ajax call. The problem is that the states get populated in Mozilla but it doesnt work in IE. I guess there i...

Asp.net and windows authentication

My application needs to be designed so that an administrator can, via a web interface select if their users login via windows authentication or forms authentication. This means I cant specify the authentication mode in the web.config i.e.: <system.web> <authentication mode="Windows"/> </system.web> How do I approach this? ...

Add class to Django label_tag() output

I need some way to add a class attribute to the output of the label_tag() method for a forms field. I see that there is the ability to pass in an attrs dictionary and I have tested it in the shell and I can do something like: for field in form: print field.label_tag(attrs{'class':'Foo'}) I will see the class='Foo' in my output, ...

Is there any way to get all the controls on a container control?

I've got a form with a bunch of controls on it, and I wanted to iterate through all the controls on a certain panel and enable/disable them. I tried this: var component: TComponent; begin for component in myPanel do (component as TControl).Enabled := Value; end; But that did nothing. Turns out all components are in the form's ...

Passing form data from asp file to php

I have a form in an ASP file that I would like to pass to a php script for processing. Is this possible? I don't see why it wouldn't be, but I tried a dummy form on an asp file, with the action="phptest.php" and when submitting it just reloads the form page. ...

Forms with action=""

I just found out (the hard way), that when you have a HTML form with action="", Webkit browsers treat it differently to Firefox and Internet Explorer. In FF and IE, these two form tags are equivalent: <form method="post" action=""> <form method="post"> They will both submit the form back to the same page. Safari and Chrome however w...

Two forms having the same action

Hello, I have two forms in my rails app. They both exist in separate tabs and I when I submit one form I want the data in the other form to be saved as well. How should I do that? Or Is there a better way of doing this instead of using two separate forms? Is there a better way to spread a long form into multiple tabs and when I press su...

Nesting content tags in rails

Hey. I've got some code from Agile Web Development that wraps some HTML around a method call as so: # from tagged_builder.rb, included as a FormBuilder helper def self.create_tagged_field(method_name) define_method(method_name) do |label, *args| @template.content_tag("p", @template.content_tag("label" , ...

Is there a better jQuery solution to this.form.submit(); ?

I want to trigger the submit event of the form the current element is in. A method I know works sometimes is: this.form.submit(); I'm wondering if there is a better solution, possibly using jQuery, as I'm not 100% sure method works in every browser. Edit: The situation I have is, as follows: <form method="get"> <p><label>Field ...

Unicode characters not showing in System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

These characters show fine when I cut-and-paste them here from the VisualStudio debugger, but both in the debugger, and in the TextBox where I am trying to display this text, it just shows squares. 说明\r\n海流受季风影响,3-9 月份其流向主要向北,流速为2 节,有时达3 节;10 月至次年4 月份其流向南至东南方向,流速为2 节。\r\n注意\r\n附近有火山爆发的危险,航行时严加注意\r\n I thought that the TextBox supported...

Django form - in-place edit of data from reverse foreign key join

I have a Person table and Phone table. The Phone table has a foreign key into the Person table, which is an auto-increment ID. Each person can have an arbitrary number of phone numbers. Is there a way for me to create a Django form to enter phone numbers while creating a new Person entry and edit them along with an existing Person ent...

Is it impractical to put an HTML form into an email?

I've had several clients ask this, and I've never been able to get or give a satisfactory answer. Can you (practically) put a working form into an HTML email? My understanding is that you can, but that there's no guarantee of email clients properly handling it, so that method would only be practical with individual recipients that you'd...

Hide Submit Button for form

I am asp.net-MVC using the BeginForm syntax in my source ciew page and I was told if you want the form to submit you have to have the submit Button at the end of the using statement. I don't want to use a Button to call the desired Action I have an Actionlink set up like so: <%=Html.ActionLink("" + CreateMore, "Create", "", new { @cla...