JQuery UI button submitting entire content problem in IE 6.0 - asp.net-mvc

I have the same problem as posted here
I have a <button> element that triggers "A potentially dangerous request.form value..." error in asp.net MVC. For instance:
<button type="submit" name="logon" value="ok">Confirm</button>
<button type="submit" name="cancel" value="ok">Cancel</button>
And this javascript (with jquery UI 1.8.5)
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("button").button();
});
</script>
The issue is that I can't remove the name property (as the given solution in the link I posted) because I capture which button is pressed in the controller side this way:
public ActionResult Logon(FormCollection form, string logon, string cancel)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(logon))
{
DoLogon();
}
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(cancel))
{
Cancel();
}
//etc
}
Is there any workaround for this? Thanks. Note that I don't have this problem in IE8 or firefox.

Have you seen this?
Cause
The .NET framework is throwing up an error because it detected something
in the entered text which looks like an HTML statement. The text doesn't
need to contain valid HTML, just anything with opening and closing
angled brackets ("<...>").
The solution proposed there is to disable the request validation on the server-side:
<pages validateRequest="false" />
Be sure to read through the warnings and explanations as well.

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Textarea New Line on Enter Key not working on .NET Core MVC Application

I have a (probably) simple issue that I can't solve and need your help to resolve.
I created a new MVC application with Visual Studio 2017. I then created the necessary Model, View, and Controller to add some data to a SQL Server database.
However, in the TEXTAREA input, I am not able to use the Enter Key to go to a new line, like I am able to do here when I submitted this question. The Enter key does nothing.
I tried to trace the issue and was able to use this script to confirm that the Enter key was detected; however, still can't get a new line when I pressed the Enter key.
<script>
$(window).keydown(function (event) {
if ((event.which == 13) && ($(event.target)[0] == $("textarea")[0])) {
alert("One");
// event.preventDefault();
// return false;
}
});
</script>
Second, I added an onclick event to the textarea itself and still did not get a new line when clicked. There must be an override for the textarea in code that I am not able to find, which is probably part of the default app build in .NET VS2017.
<textarea rows="6" cols="20" class="form-control" asp-for="Notes" style="width: 96% !important;" onclick="this.value='Hello \n How R U?'"></textarea>
Is there any way to correct this issue and gain access to the full TEXTAREA functionalities and be able to provide a full text-based area for users to provide detailed comments in multiple lines?
Thank you for your reply.
I wrote following HTML code to face your problem but there was no problem!
<html>
<head>
<title>
test
</title>
</head>
<body>
<textarea rows="6" cols="20" class="form-control" asp-for="Notes" style="width: 96% !important;"
onclick="this.value='Hello \n How R U?'"></textarea>
</body>
</html>
Did you check your application by another browser?
If the problem still remains, In your browser inspect HTML code of your textarea and compare it to the tag helper equivalent of the textarea in your view code. This may help you to figure something out.

Is there a way to update textarea 2 simultaneously while typing text in text area 1 using JSF ajax features? [duplicate]

I am trying to implement jQuery with PrimeFaces and JSF components, but it's not working properly. When I tried to do the same with HTML tags it;s working properly.
Here is the code with HTML tags which works properly with jQuery:
<input type="checkbox" id="check2"></input>
<h:outputText value="Check the box, if your permanent address is as same as current address."></h:outputText>
<h:message for="checkbox" style="color:red" />
with
$("#check2").change(function() {
if ($("#check2").is(":checked")) {
$("#p2").hide();
} else {
$("#p2").show();
}
});
Here is the code with PrimeFaces/JSF which doesn't work properly with jQuery:
<p:selectManyCheckbox >
<f:selectItem itemLabel="1" value="one" id="rad" ></f:selectItem>
</p:selectManyCheckbox>
with
$("#rad").change(function() {
if ($("#rad:checked").val() == "one") {
$("#p2").hide();
} else {
$("#p2").show();
}
});
You should realize that jQuery works with the HTML DOM tree in the client side. jQuery doesn't work directly on JSF components as you've written in the JSF source code, but jQuery works directly with the HTML DOM tree which is generated by those JSF components. You need to open the page in webbrowser and rightclick and then View Source. You'll see that JSF prepends the ID of the generated HTML input elements with the IDs of all parent NamingContainer components (such as <h:form>, <h:dataTable>, etc) with : as default separator character. So for example
<h:form id="foo">
<p:selectManyCheckbox id="bar" />
...
will end up in generated HTML as
<form id="foo" name="foo">
<input type="checkbox" id="foo:bar" name="foo:bar" />
...
You need to select elements by exactly that ID instead. The : is however a special character in CSS identifiers representing a pseudo selector. To select an element with a : in the ID using CSS selectors in jQuery, you need to either escape it by backslash or to use the [id=...] attribute selector or just use the old getElementById():
var $element1 = $("#foo\\:bar");
// or
var $element2 = $("[id='foo:bar']");
// or
var $element3 = $(document.getElementById("foo:bar"));
If you see an autogenerated j_idXXX part in the ID where XXX represents an incremental number, then you must give the particular component a fixed ID, because the incremental number is dynamic and is subject to changes depending on component's physical position in the tree.
As an alternative, you can also just use a class name:
<x:someInputComponent styleClass="someClassName" />
which ends up in HTML as
<input type="..." class="someClassName" />
so that you can get it as
var $elements = $(".someClassName");
This allows for better abstraction and reusability. Surely those kind of elements are not unique. Only the main layout elements like header, menu, content and footer are really unique, but they are in turn usually not in a NamingContainer already.
As again another alternative, you could just pass the HTML DOM element itself into the function:
<x:someComponent onclick="someFunction(this)" />
function someFunction(element) {
var $element = $(element);
// ...
}
See also:
How can I know the id of a JSF component so I can use in Javascript
How to use JSF generated HTML element ID with colon ":" in CSS selectors?
By default, JSF generates unusable IDs, which are incompatible with the CSS part of web standards
Integrate JavaScript in JSF composite component, the clean way
You also can use the jQuery "Attribute Contains Selector" (here is the url http://api.jquery.com/attribute-contains-selector/)
For example If you have a
<p:spinner id="quantity" value="#{toBuyBean.quantityToAdd}" min="0"/>
and you want to do something on its object you can select it with
jQuery('input[id*="quantity"]')
and if you want to print its value you can do this
alert(jQuery('input[id*="quantity"]').val());
In order to know the real html tag of the element you can always look at the real html element (in this case spinner was translated into input) using firebug or ie developer tools or view source...
Daniel.
If you're using RichFaces you can check rich:jQuery comonent. It allows you to specify server side id for jQuery component. For example, you have component with specified server id, then you can apply any jQuery related stuff to in next way:
<rich:jQuery selector="#<server-side-component-id>" query="find('.some-child').removeProp('style')"/>
For more info, please check doumentation.
Hope it helps.
look this will help you when i select experience=Yes my dialoguebox which id is dlg3 is popup.and if value is No it will not open

Show Search button on iOS keyboard using html input type=search in AngularJS app

In iOS 8 and above, to show the Search button on the iOS keyboard, you use the action attribute in the form. From Anton's answer here ... Show 'Search' button in iPhone/iPad Safari keyboard
<form action=".">
<input type="search" />
</form>
But this does not work when you are using an AngularJS form with ng-submit like this
<form action="." ng-submit="doSearch(searchtext)">
<input type="search" ng-model="searchtext" />
</form>
The action attribute breaks the Angular form submit.
Any suggestions on how to put a dummy action attribute and still get ng-submit to handle the form processing? Or any other solution that would show the iOS keyboard's search key with an AngularJS HTML5 form.
Just encountered the same problem, key here is that angular prevents default form submission only if no action specified, so if you want to specify one you need to preventDefault manually, which should be pretty easy.
This should work (worked for me):
<form action="." ng-submit="$event.preventDefault();doSearch(searchtext)">
<input type="search" ng-model="searchtext" />
</form>
Also note, that you will need to blur() your input field after you made a Search request in order to auto-hide keyboard.
Update:
With the latter this directive will help you:
.directive('prettySubmit', function () {
return function (scope, element, attr) {
var textFields = $(element).children('input');
$(element).submit(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
textFields.blur();
});
};
})
I have placed preventDefault() in directive, so your form will look like this:
<form action="." ng-submit="doSearch(searchtext)" pretty-submit>
<input type="search" ng-model="searchtext" />
</form>
I encountered the same problem.
Finally I decided to use
<form action="{{'#/search/' + searchText }}">
Instead, and it works.

Nerd dinner error on Ajax call to Register action method

I'm new to MVC and I'm implementing the Nerd Dinner MVC sample app in MS MVC2. I'm on step 10, "Ajax enabling RSVPs accepts". I've added the new RSVP controller and added the Register action method like so:
public class RSVPController : Controller
{
DinnerRepository dinnerRepository = new DinnerRepository();
//
// AJAX: /Dinners/RSVPForEvent/1
[Authorize, AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionResult Register(int id) {
Dinner dinner = dinnerRepository.GetDinner(id);
if (!dinner.IsUserRegistered(User.Identity.Name)) {
RSVP rsvp = new RSVP();
rsvp.AttendeeName = User.Identity.Name;
dinner.RSVPs.Add(rsvp);
dinnerRepository.Save();
}
return Content("Thanks - we'll see you there!");
}
}
I added the references to both Ajax script libraries and added the code below to the Details view as described in the article:
<div id="rsvpmsg">
<% if(Request.IsAuthenticated) { %>
<% if(Model.IsUserRegistered(Context.User.Identity.Name)) { %>
<p>You are registred for this event!</p>
<% } else { %>
<%= Ajax.ActionLink( "RSVP for this event",
"Register", "RSVP",
new { id=Model.DinnerID },
new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId="rsvpmsg"}) %>
<% } %>
<% } else { %>
Logon to RSVP for this event.
<% } %>
</div>
When I click the "RSVP for this event" link I get a 404 eror saying the resource cannot be found:
The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.
Requested URL: /NerdDinner/RSVP/Register/24
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.4200; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.4205
When I step into the code it is finding the Register action method correctly. After playing around with it I removed the "AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)" from the constraint on the Register method, and it then worked. However it didn't reload the page it just displayed the "Thanks - we'll see you there" message on a new blank page. Looking at the html in the details page there is no Form submit taking place, so I'm wondering does the Ajax code need something more to make the call a Post? Is there a known issue with this part of the Nerd Dinner app? I think the app was written in MVC1 and I'm using MVC2 - does this make a diference?
TIA,
Ciaran
The PDF tutorial (versus the online HTML version) has typographic ANSI quote characters (0x94) rather than ASCII (0x22) in the HTML block of script elements. The correct block is shown below with all of the quote characters replaced.
<script src="/Scripts/MicrosoftAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/MicrosoftMvcAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Visual Studio will mark the JavaScript source files with the Warning green squiggles ("File not found") but not the type attributes so you may notice and correct the problem only for the source files. However, the type attributes will still be malformed and this will cause the scripts not to be loaded correctly in the browser.
Using the Chrome developer tools, I noticed that the scripts were not listed as Resources for the Details HTML page. Correcting the quote characters for the type attributes allowed the Register action to work as documented in the tutorial with no changes.
This portion of your action explains why you just get the "see you there" message:
return Content("Thanks - we'll see you there!");
That's all that's being returned.
The reason you were getting a 404 to begin with is the use of an actionlink:
Ajax.ActionLink(...
That will create a URL link, a GET not a POST, and the AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post) would have forced no match. You should submit a form to do a post:
using (Ajax.BeginForm("Controller", "Action", new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId = "f1" } )) { %>
<div id="f1">
<!-- form fields here -->
<input type="submit" />
</div>
<% } %>
As an additional comment to debugging issues with this problem, being a Java/JSF developer, I ran into a hard lesson that
<script src="/Scripts/MicrosoftAjax.js" type="text/javascript" />
and
<script src="/Scripts/MicrosoftAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
are processed differently. The first not working at all and the second working correctly.
This is the Details.cshtml used in MVC3. The problem with redirecting using GET, and not POST is similar.
<div id="rsvpmsg">
#if (Request.IsAuthenticated)
{
if (Model.IsUserRegistered(Context.User.Identity.Name))
{
<p>
You are registered for this event</p>
}
else
{
#Ajax.ActionLink("RSVP for this event",
"Register",
"RSVP",
new { id = Model.DinnerID },
new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId = "rsvpmsg", HttpMethod = "Post" })
}
}
else
{
<p>
Logon to RSVP for this event.</p>
}
</div>
#section JavaScript
{
<script src="#Url.Content("~/Scripts/MicrosoftAjax.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>;
<script src="#Url.Content("~/Scripts/MicrosoftMvcAjax.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>;
}
Ok, so previously i have mentioned that i had the same problem, and it comes from the fact that MVC 3 uses unobtrusive JavaScript.
To make this work, you have 2 solutions, one is to disable Unobtrusive Javascript in your webconfig file:
<appSettings>
<add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true" />
<add key="UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled" value="true" />
</appSettings>
Just set it to false, and during page build, javascript generated for the Action link will be normal inline javascript, that works fine, and results with something like this in HTML:
<a onclick="Sys.Mvc.AsyncHyperlink.handleClick(this, new Sys.UI.DomEvent(event),
{ insertionMode: Sys.Mvc.InsertionMode.replace, httpMethod: 'Post', updateTargetId: 'rsvpmsg' });" href="/RSVP/Register/13">RSVP for this event</a>
Second solution is more to my liking and it is just as simple. You just have to include additional javascript source file in your header:
<head>
<title>#ViewBag.Title</title>
<link href="#Url.Content("~/Content/Site.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="#Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.4.4.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="#Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
#RenderSection("JavaScript",required:false)
</head>
The resulting javascript generated is unobtrusive, and results with this in HTML:
RSVP for this event
In both cases the resulting functionality is the same, and the second solution is "more in spirit" of new MVC 3.
Just in case it helps someone else, i had the problem using MVC 3 and it was because I had linked to the MS AJAX libraries and MVC 3 actually uses jQuery by default so I just needed to uncomment the links in my master page and it was fine.
To make an http post with Ajax.ActionLink , you'd have to do e.g. new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId="rsvpmsg",HttpMethod="POST"}
if you include those two in your site.master, it should be fine
<script src="/Scripts/MicrosoftAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/MicrosoftMvcAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
I was trying to convert to MVC3/Razor as I worked through this example. I've been stuck on this exact same issue for at least 24 hours now...exact same symptoms. I tried everything on this page that I could understand or thought was relevant.
I didn't have the unobtrusive javascript mention in my web.config and was considering adding it with the "false" value thinking "true" might be the default. However, I was thinking it might screw something else up (among who knows what else).
I found the following tid-bit over on the wrox forum. If I add the following line of code to the second line of my RSVPStatus.cshtml partial view:
<script src="/Scripts/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Everything works as intended. I know Zak mentioned that line of code above (and a bunch of other stuff that lead me in the right direction), but I was using the partial view and haven't seen a head tag since I started messing with MVC. I know it's probably there somewhere, but all the smoke and mirrors of what is MS programming now, makes it harder to dissect and I probably would have gone down Zak's path at some point. So, +1 for him.
Anyway, hope this helps someone save a day.

Jquery UI button gets disabled on refresh

I asked about this on the jquery forum a few weeks ago without luck, so I will try again here :)
I've made a simple widget for a project I'm working on, but I have encountered an odd problem.
It is easiest to explain it with an example implementation.
http://decko.dk/buttontest
On the page there are 3 button. The first one is my drop down widget. The next one is a regular disabled button (A) and the last one a regular enabled button (B).
If you then refresh the page (press F5 or whatever) the enabled button is mysteriously now disabled.
I have no clue why this happens, but if button A is not disabled to begin with, button B will not be disabled when refreshing. Also, if I remove the call to insertAfter in my widget-code, the button will not be disabled.
Can anyone shed light on why this strange behavior occurs?
By the way, I have only been able to reproduce this in Firefox.
I believe this is a bug in how Firefox remembers form field/control values and states:
After the first page load, there are three <button> elements in the document, and <button id="button_a"> is disabled. (When the jQuery UI styled button is enabled or disabled, it sets the underlying element to the same state.)
Firefox remembers that the second <button> is disabled.
After a page refresh, before any scripts are run, Firefox restores form fields and controls. It disables the second <button>, but since no script has been run, the second button is <button id="button_b">.
When jQuery UI creates the styled button for <button id="button_b">, it sees that it is disabled and continues to style it as disabled.
There are two issues here:
How Firefox remembers which elements are disabled. It's not taking into account dynamic elements. I suggest filing a bug with Mozilla for this.
Form elements stay disabled after a page refresh. I'm not sure if this is the correct behaviour, but there are two bugzilla reports on this.
The test case can simplify down to just adding a <button> element dynamically and disabling <button id="button_a">, no jQuery / jQuery UI necessary:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>disabled button test</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function () {
var a = document.getElementById('button_a'),
menu = document.createElement('button');
menu.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Menu'));
document.body.insertBefore(menu, a);
a.disabled = true;
};
</script>
</head>
<body>
<button id="button_a">A</button>
<button id="button_b">B</button>
</body>
</html>
I've been getting this problem also and worked out it was down to silly behaviour in firefox, my fix was as so:
before:
//set up the buttons
$("button").button();
after:
//set up the buttons (and make sure firefox behaves)
$("button").button().attr("autocomplete", "off");
Setting the Expires HTTP header to a date in the past, solved the problem for me in Firefox 6.0.
Here is the solution I found works really well in all browsers...
I give each button (that can be disabled) a class 'js_submit'
I then re-enable any disabled buttons with class 'js_submit' on the pagehide event that fires when a page is unloaded.
I wrap the event assignment inside a try catch to prevent browsers that don't support this event from throwing an error (such as IE).
Here is the code:
<input id="button" type="button" value="Submit" class="js_submit" />
// Fix for firefox bfcache:
try {
window.addEventListener('pagehide', PageHideHandler, false);
} catch (e) { }
//Fires when a page is unloaded:
function PageHideHandler() {
//re-enable disabled submit buttons:
$('.js_submit').attr('disabled', false);
}
In my case it was a Bootstrap bug
<input id="appointmentBtn" type="button"
ng-click="addAppointment()" class="btn btn-primary btn-xs
disabled" value="Add Appointment">
Instead it should have been
<input id="appointmentBtn" type="button"
ng-click="addAppointment()" class="btn-primary btn-xs
disabled" value="Add Appointment">

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