Two forms in one page?
 

I'm a real newby. I'm trying to get 2 submission forms onto the same page,
one activated by Return, the other by a Send button. A little while ago I
found that the contents of the buttoned form were sent by both sending
methods. I rearranged the "action" and "div class="commentform" lines, and
now nothing at all gets sent.

Which of my many errors do you think might be responsible for this cockup?

Tim

Re: Two forms in one page?
 

"Tim" <timwalters@terrano.es> wrote in message
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> I'm a real newby. I'm trying to get 2 submission forms onto the same page,
> one activated by Return, the other by a Send button. A little while ago I
> found that the contents of the buttoned form were sent by both sending
> methods. I rearranged the "action" and "div class="commentform" lines, and
> now nothing at all gets sent.
>
> Which of my many errors do you think might be responsible for this cockup?

I suspect you've probably broken the mark-up. Try running your page through
http://validator.w3.org/ and fix any errors that that generates and/or try
posting a url to your page so that we can see what's going on.

There is no fundamental reason why having two (or more) forms on a page
shouldn't work. The only thing to remember is that only one form can post
back.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

Re: Two forms in one page?
 

Scripsit Tim:

> I'm a real newby.

Then stop acting like a _clueless_ newbie. You multiposted. Multiposting is
bad. Don't do multipost. Check my answer in c.i.w.a.h.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Re: Two forms in one page?
 

whatever the heck c.i.w.a.h. is.......


Mike Minor

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"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
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> Scripsit Tim:
>
>> I'm a real newby.
>
> Then stop acting like a _clueless_ newbie. You multiposted. Multiposting
> is bad. Don't do multipost. Check my answer in c.i.w.a.h.
>
> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Re: Two forms in one page?
 

"Brian Cryer" <brian.cryer@127.0.0.1.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> "Tim" <timwalters@terrano.es> wrote in message
> news:q7rf3.viv.19.1@news.alt.net...
> > I'm a real newby. I'm trying to get 2 submission forms onto the same
page,
> > one activated by Return, the other by a Send button. A little while ago
I
> > found that the contents of the buttoned form were sent by both sending
> > methods. I rearranged the "action" and "div class="commentform" lines,
and
> > now nothing at all gets sent.
> >
> > Which of my many errors do you think might be responsible for this
cockup?
>
> I suspect you've probably broken the mark-up. Try running your page
through
> http://validator.w3.org/ and fix any errors that that generates


I did this. It validated the code. But Jukka has pointed out elsewhere that
I had a form relevant line outside the </form> limit.



and/or try
> posting a url to your page so that we can see what's going on.


It's being tested on my computer. It hasn't been posted yet.


>
> There is no fundamental reason why having two (or more) forms on a page
> shouldn't work. The only thing to remember is that only one form can post
> back.


Sorry. What does this last sentence mean?

Thanks for your interest and help.

Tim



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> Brian Cryer
> www.cryer.co.uk/brian
>
>
>

Re: Two forms in one page?
 

"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
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> Scripsit Tim:
>
> > I'm a real newby.
>
> Then stop acting like a _clueless_ newbie. You multiposted. Multiposting
is
> bad.

I hadn't realized. Apologies.


Don't do multipost. Check my answer in c.i.w.a.h.
>
> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
>
>

Re: Two forms in one page?
 

Mike Minor wrote:
> whatever the heck c.i.w.a.h. is.......
>

Another NG "comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html"

--
Take care,

Jonathan
-------------------
LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

Re: Two forms in one page?
 

"Tim" <timwalters@terrano.es> wrote in message
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>
> "Brian Cryer" <brian.cryer@127.0.0.1.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
<snip>
>> There is no fundamental reason why having two (or more) forms on a page
>> shouldn't work. The only thing to remember is that only one form can post
>> back.
>
> Sorry. What does this last sentence mean?

Simply that you can have more than one form on a page, but only one of them
can be submitted. So if you had say a search box and a shopping-cart both as
forms, either the search-box or the shopping-cart form would fire (in
response to the user), but not both. So the user would end up either
searching or doing some shopping-cart function (but not both). Clear?
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

Re: Two forms in one page?
 

Thanks....I hadn't seen that one before....


Thank you,

Mike Minor

"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
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> Mike Minor wrote:
>> whatever the heck c.i.w.a.h. is.......
>>
>
> Another NG "comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html"
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
> -------------------
> LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
> http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

Re: Two forms in one page?
 

"Brian Cryer" <brian.cryer@127.0.0.1.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> "Tim" <timwalters@terrano.es> wrote in message
> news:q8t4o.s7b.19.1@news.alt.net...
> >
> > "Brian Cryer" <brian.cryer@127.0.0.1.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> <snip>
> >> There is no fundamental reason why having two (or more) forms on a page
> >> shouldn't work. The only thing to remember is that only one form can
post
> >> back.
> >
> > Sorry. What does this last sentence mean?
>
> Simply that you can have more than one form on a page, but only one of
them
> can be submitted. So if you had say a search box and a shopping-cart both
as
> forms, either the search-box or the shopping-cart form would fire (in
> response to the user), but not both. So the user would end up either
> searching or doing some shopping-cart function (but not both). Clear?

I think so. You're saying that each form is entirely independent. The
instruction to send one would leave the other unacted upon. Right?


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> Brian Cryer
> www.cryer.co.uk/brian
>
>
>