Say I were to post to a site using www.mysite.com?user=myuser does that simulate the submit button that is associated with that form? If so, what happens if there are a number of submit buttons in the form?
Also, if that button's html is like so <input name="button" class="button" type="button" value="Save" onclick="javascript: submit()" disabled> with the "disabled" attribute, does that mean I can't POST www.mysite.com?user=myuser/won't work?
<form name="Form" method="post" action="/thisAction.do">
<input type="text" name="inquiryNo" maxlength="11" value="" onkeyup="javascript: checkNo()">
<input name="buttonInquire" class="button" value="Inquire" onclick="javascript: submitInquire()" type="button">
<!--Then comes a number of other inputs-->
<input.../>
<input.../>
<input.../>
<input name="modify" class="button" type="button" value="Save"
onclick="javascript: submitModify()" disabled>
</form>
This is some sample code as it's work stuff which I am not allowed to share. So when I use the inquire action a new account successfully loads up and the details are presented on the page. The modify action is meant to 'modify' those details but it just returns the same details displayed on the page. I get no sort of feedback from anything.
You can POST to a URL with a query string (the stuff after the ?), and since you say you're using urllib2 with a data argument, that's what happens. The server can then read both the POST data and the query string and do whatever it wants, though most of the time they're merged together or the query string is ignored entirely.
disabled only stops you from clicking the button in the browser (and even then, you can just un-disable it with a tool like Firebug). You can POST whatever you want to any URL you want; HTML can't stop you, though the server can still give you an error if it wants.
I think your problem is that "inquire" is the default action, and something's wrong with your POST. So no matter what you send, the server isn't recognizing it and is falling back to "inquire".
It looks like the form is intended to send modify=Save. Can you post the Python code you're actually running?
No, what you actually typed in is a GET method.
There are 2 ways of submitting data: POST AND GET.
Post is by submitting data by using a form in a webpage that posts to another on the background, while GET is setting the data in the url itself like user=myuser.
Most of the times using a GET method (url query string) will not work if the web programmer actually is checking for a POST method. The same happens if the programmer is waiting for a GET request and you actually POST it.
However there is a php var called REQUEST which will work with GET and POST.
I'm no professional in PHP but because you had no answers at the moment I tried my best to explain it. Hopefully some expert will come along and explain it properly.
You edited your question while I was replying so you need someone to answer you on your second question.
Can i use html form tags in struts 2 form?
Like
<input type='text' value='' />
<input type='submit' />
Will the values be posted through struts2?
It's not at all mandatory to use struts2 tags. You could go with regular HTML.
Of course.
This is one of those questions you can just try.
All the S2 form tags do is emit HTML, filling in various attributes as required. (It's slightly more complicated than that, but ultimately, they spit out an HTML form field.)
Flip your question on its head: why wouldn't a hand-crafted input tag be sent via the normal browser HTTP submission process? What mechanism could prevent it from working? How is the request body of from such a form submission different from one where the input tags are S2 custom tags?
These questions are all trivial to explore.
Yes.
You must give them a name; the name will be used to set properties (with correct type conversion) in the struts action.
If you call an input somename the setSomename() will be called on post.
If simple HTML used you wont be able to call struts tags inside it eg:
<s:submit cssStyle="submit_button" id='newrc%{#stat.index}.%{#questionIndex.index}' name="newrc%{#stat.index}.%{#questionIndex.index}" onclick="return newrcClick(this)" value="+" />
This works but below code does not provide values for id and name from values stack thus :name="newrc%{#stat.index}.%{#questionIndex.index}"
<input type="button" cssStyle="submit_button" id='newrc%{#stat.index}.%{#questionIndex.index}' name="newrc%{#stat.index}.%{#questionIndex.index}" onclick="return newrcClick(this)" value="+" />
Actually its not actually a problem, but I'm thinking and searching for it for a while.
When we use php and to setup some link we can use something like-
some link
in this way anyone can see what is going on by looking at the url. Is there any possible way to keep it hidden like the POST method of the form element?
I don't want user to modify and play around with my parameters and values. Lets guess I don't want to encrypt the values and parameters and I can't use form element as they should be pure links. And also what if I don't want to use url rewriting engine.
Any ideas from the experts?
edit:
I forgot to mention another most important thing that I need to get the parameters and the values I want to pass through that link and do some stuffs in the page i'm linking to.
thanks again.
You can use a hidden form
<form action="realurl" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="parameter" value="value1"></input>
</form>
<a onclick="forms[0].submit();" href="http://fake">link text</a>
HI All,
I know this is bit strange question, but please suggest.
I want to create a link on website url content in input type"text" field not any other html tag,Is it possible and if yes how.
Regards & Thanks
Amit
I don't know whether I understood your question correctly or not. Based on my understanding I gave the answer. Feel free to raise your question. Nothing is impossible.
</input>
It displays a text box. You can enter any data into it. If you press enter key then it forwards the page to Google.com
You can use SPAN instead of INPUT. This also serve the same purpose.
<a href="http://www.google.com" ><span style="border:1px solid blue;" >Link</span></a>
This is unfortunately not possible in the way you've asked it in HTML 4 or below. Even with HTML5 which has several new INPUT TYPEs, including URL, it only does validation and has some other useful functions, but won't give you want you want.
You might look for some jQuery plugins that can help you do this, most use the same principals behind Rich Text or other online/web-based HTML WYSIWYG editors. I've had trouble locating them myself.
These 3 situations (that I can think of right now) are pretty much what you will face natively with HTML4 or below, as text in an actual HTML4 INPUT textbox is pure text. It is not html and therefore NOT clickable. Here are some variations:
The INPUT tag's VALUE attribute, also referenced as the corresponding DOM object's "value" property (which is basically what you've been doing, and the most you can hope for, if you decide that you MUST have the text that's ACTUALLY inside the textbox (because the text inside the textbox is the VALUE attribute, as I have it with "http://yahoo.com" in this example):
<input id="myTxtbox" type="text" value="http://yahoo.com">
where the INPUT's VALUE = "http://yahoo.com", which you can retrieve with:
in pure javascript:
document.getElementById("myTxtbox").value
in jQuery:
$("myTxtBox").val()
When your link/url is the text in between the and , i.e. the text/innerText of the textbox. This is useless for your question/scenario since it's not clickable, and more importantly NOT INSIDE the textbox. However, someone might want to use this to retrieve any text that you may be using as a label (if you're not using the <label> tag itself already that is):
<input id="myTxtbox" type="text">
http://yahoo.com
</input>
The textbox's text/innerText is NOT an attribute here, only a DOM object property, but can still be retrieved:
pure javascript:
document.getElementById("myTxtbox").innerText
jQuery:
$("myTxtBox").text() -- you would use this to capure any text that you may be using as a label (if you're not using the tag).
The result being: http://yahoo.com
When your link/url is the form of an ANCHOR () with an HREF to your url (and visible link text) in between the and , i.e. the innerHTML of the textbox. This is getting a bit closer to what you want, as the link will appear as, and function as an actual link. However, it will NOT be inside of the textbox. It will be along side it as in example #2. Again, as stated in example #1, you CANNOT have actual working HTML, and therefore a working 'link' inside of a textbox:
<input id="myTxtbox" type="text">
<a href="http://yahoo.com">
http://yahoo.com
</a>
</input>
Once again, similarly to example #2, the textbox's innerHTML is NOT an attribute here, only a DOM object property, but can still be retrieved:
pure javascript:
document.getElementById("myTxtbox").innerHTML
jQuery:
$("myTxtBox").html()
The result being: http://yahoo.com
You could simply do this :
<input type=text value="link" readonly>
So whenever somebody clicks the textbox, it works as a link, and since it's read only, there wont be any text input/change.
Be careful tho, for it wont look like a regular link and might cause confusion, or may be misinterpreted as a normal textbox.
This is how I did it with JavaScript and JQuery. This wraps the entire text field in a hyperlink, so essentially the entire text field is click-able, which may not be the functionality you are looking for. It worked for my purposes though.
The reason I didn't just use a $(nameTextField).click(function(){...}) structure is because the text field I'm using has the disabled attribute set, so click functions aren't fired. That's why I had to wrap the text field in a hyperlink.
// Make person name a hyperlink to page in new tab
var nameLink = "/exampleUrl/?initStudentId=$" + studentId;
$("#studentNameLink").replaceWith($("#studentNameLink").html()); // Unwrap any previously wrapped text fields
$(nameTextField).wrap("<a id='studentNameLink' target='_blank' href='" + nameLink + "'>"); // Wrap text field in anchor
$(nameTextField).css('color', '#326699'); // Make text blue
$(nameTextField).val(studentName); // Set text field value
Half the people here missunderstood it. The OP would like to have the content/value of the input fields to be hyperlinks instantly and NOT the fields themselves.
It is doable... although it's not an input field but the appearance acts like such one.
Use the following: contenteditable=true
HTML
<div contenteditable=true>
<a id=lnk style=-moz-appearance:textfield href=http://www.google.com>http://www.google.com</a>
</div>
or optionally -webkit-appearance ..depends
JavaScript
var lnk=document.getElementById('lnk');
lnk.addEventListener('click',()=>{
window.location.href = lnk.getAttribute('href');
});
http://jsfiddle.net/Dezain/jm9mzrzp/
You want someone clicking a textbox to actually be treated as a link click?
Sounds malicious to me but you could bind the focus event via javascript to a window.redirect().
I don't know if I get the question right. As I've understood you want to be able to type in a ...-tag into an input-field. No other tags should be allowed. You can achieve this by using PHP for example:
<!-- HTML-Code -->
<input type="text" name="link" />
// PHP-Code
$link = strip_tags($_POST['link'], 'a'); // Remove all other tags than the <a>-Tag...
Is that what you mean?
Yes, it is possible, but it's not that simple. You need to create div, or other tag you prefer, that will be always floating over your input, using CSS positions, and create anchor inside it.
For example, virtual keyboard img is embedded into input field that way on russian Google page (http://www.google.ru/)
Because of browser-compatibility it's not a simple task.
EDIT: Understood your question a little more. You still need first part of the answer, and you will need to handle keypress event inside your input. When symbol is entered you will need to update your floating div.
So now task is difficult even more. Maybe you should revise your model and not the code.
It seems like everything I look up on this subject has either changed since the release or is wildly different from eachother.
I just want to create a simple form in my view.
Should I be using the Html.BeginForm()/TextBox()/EndForm() methods or should I be using a plain-jane HTML form? Which is preferred?
This is what I have so far:
<%=Html.BeginForm("Create", "Product", FormMethod.Post); %>
<%=Html.TextBox("productTextBox", "Enter a shoe name"); %>
<input type="submit" name="createButton" value="Create Me!" />
<%=Html.EndForm(); %>
What is the "correct" way to create a simple form with a button and textbox in ASP.NET MVC and allow me to submit the data in the form to the /Product/Create action?
How do I then access the form data from within that method? Some people seem to use a "FormCollection" and others just do a Request.Form method. Which way should I use?
Can someone enlighten me?
The Form helpers are the recommended way because it allows you to provide a controller, action and other route data and the URL is auto-generated based on your routes (in Global.asax). The advantage is, if you decide to change your routes, you don't have to update every URL in your site.
The only reason I'd use an actual "<form>" tag was if I needed extra control over the markup that I couldn't get from Html.Form (I can't think of an example right now). Even if you choose to do that, you should use the "Url.Action" helper to get a URL from routing data. For example:
<form action="<%= Url.Action("Create") %>">
As for your second question, I'd suggest using the Model Binder. Check out ScottGu's Blog for some details on this.
Have a look at Link.
It's German text but the code should be understandable.
Have you looked at this:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/03/10/free-asp-net-mvc-ebook-tutorial.aspx
It's from the horse's mouth, and is up-to-date with the final release.