AW: AW: [Javascript] Re: one form, two submit ways

[Hakan M (Backbase)]

It's not really dirty, as long as you're accessing the attributes and 
elements correctly. That is, as long as you're not accessing attributes 
the IE-way.

Consider this:
--
<form action="load.php">
   <input type="text" name="action"/>
</form>

myform['action'].value = 'save.php';
--

With IE's completely anal way of mapping everything to everything, you 
have no clue as to if you're changing the 'action'-attribute on the form 
tag itself (in a bad way), or if you are actually changing the value of 
the input tag inside it.

The correct way is to use the DOM-functions getAttribute and 
setAttribute, but as noted earlier this week, this doesn't work all that 
good either, at least far from everywhere.

Something like this:
--
myform.elements['action'].setAttribute('value', 'myNewValue');
--

Regards,
H

Michael Borchers wrote:
>>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>Von: Kim Hoogenberg [mailto:kim.hoogenberg at virgil.nl]
>>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. März 2005 14:18
>>An: [JavaScript List]
>>Betreff: Re: AW: [Javascript] Re: one form, two submit ways
>>
>>
>>why don't you just use something like:
>>
>><input type="button" name="book" value="Book!" 
>>onclick="document.forms['bookForm'].submit()">
>><input type="button" name="print" value="Print!" 
>>onclick="document.forms
>>['printForm'].submit()">
>>
>>Or
>>
>><input type="hidden" name="subaction" value="">
>><input type="button" name="book" value="Book!" 
>>onclick="document.forms['form'].subaction.value='book';document.forms
>>['form'].submit()">
>><input type="button" name="print" value="Print!" 
>>onclick="document.forms
>>['form'].subaction.value='print';document.forms['form'].submit()">
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>Greetz,
>>
>>Kim
> 
> 
> works very fine, thanks.
> so, i guess using "action" as a name for a hidden field is quite commen, isn't it?
> 
> but still, is it a little bit "dirty", because the form name already has an "action" tag?
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