Hello,
on 10/05/2009 03:02 PM Philip Thompson said the following:
>>> I try to avoid the use of hidden form elements as much as possible,
>>> especially for tracking whether a user has submitted a form or not...
>>>
>>> I use name="submit" for the submit button instead, that will pass the
>>> value of the submit button to the action script.
>>>
>>> above all i use a template engine, smarty to take care of the
>>> presentation for me(like deciding whether to show the form and/or a
>>> success/failure message)
>>
>> That only works if the user clicks on that submit button. If the user
>> hits the enter key in a text input, the form is submitted but the submit
>> input variable is not set. That is why an hidden input is a safer
>> solution.
>
> If you need the button to be *clicked*...
>
> <form onsubmit="$('submitButton').fireEvent('click');" ...>
>
> Or something along those lines.
That does not make much sense and is pointless. First that syntax you
mentioned probably requires JQuery or some other large Javascript
library. something like this['submitButton'].click() would emulate the
click event. Second, by the time that onsubmit is called, the event that
triggered it was already dispatched. Emulating the click on a button
would probably fire the form submission and onsubmit code would be run
again, leading to an infinite loop sucking machine CPU.
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Regards,
Manuel Lemos
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