form inside a form

rubyonrails-talk
1

Hi

     I have a main form like below

<%= start_form_tag ({:action => 'update_sd_ticket', :method => 'post',:id =>@sd_ticket.id})%> <table> <tr>     <th width=""><label for="" >SD Ticket</label></th>     <td colspan="" width=""><%=h @sd_ticket.number %></td> </tr> </table> <ul id="sdmaintab" class="shadetabs"> <li><a href="#" rel="view_sd_resolution_details">Resolution</a></li> </ul>

<div id="sddetails" class="tabcontent"> <%= render :partial=>'service_desk_part/edit_sd_details' %> </div> <div id="view_sd_resolution_details" class="tabcontent"> <%= render :partial => 'service_desk_part/view_sd_resolution_details' %> </div>

<%= end_form_tag %>

AND INSIDE THE PARTIAL FILE view_sd_resolution_details (which is completely inside a div)a link_to_remote is there which replaces this div and the file define_sd_resolution_ui is called ..(This is working) and in that the following form is there.

<%= form_remote_tag :url => { :action => 'sd_resolution_save',                                :id => @sd_ticket.id, :sd_resolution_id=>@sd_resolution_id, :page => params[:page]},                                :class => 'itilform'%>

<tr>     <th width="25%"><label for="" >Resolution</label></th>     <td width="75%"><%= text_area("sd_resolution", "resolution", "cols" => 80, "rows" => 5) %></td>   </tr> <%= end_form_tag>

BUT THIS FORM ACTION DOES NOT WORK..HOW CAN I OVERCOME THIS?

Sijo

2

taken from w3c (HTML 3.2 Reference Specification):

"FORM fill-out forms     Requires start and end tags. This element is used to define a fill-out form for processing by HTTP servers. The attributes are ACTION, METHOD and ENCTYPE. Form elements can't be nested."

--> you can't put a <form> tag inside a <form> ancestor tag , and that is pretty much what you are doing. you have to seperate the two.

3

Sijo:

This is the very same issue that you posted earlier: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/86adead2460b6ffe/cf2b5a0a344c07a5?lnk=gst&q=Sijo+form+partial#cf2b5a0a344c07a5

I don't want to discourage you from using Rails, but please do slow down a bit and study what you are working with. You are posting a lot of questions and many of the answers share the same or similar root causes.

4

Handle the issue of subforms you need to read up on the API regarding the fields_for method. See ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper.

5

Hi Sijo,

Watch the following Railscasts that might give you ideas on how to solve your problem:

Episode 16: Virtual Attributes

Complex Forms Part 1

Complex Forms Part 2

Complex Forms Part 3

Another trick is to have multiple forms but with submit buttons targeting a specific form. i.e.

<fieldset>

	<legend><span>Details</span></legend>

	<ol>

		<li>

			<label for="action_title">title :</label>

			<input id="action_title" name="action[title]" type="text" value="" />

		</li>

	</ol>

</fieldset>

<li>

	<label for="another_action_title">title :</label>

	<input id="another_action_title" name="another_action[another_action_title]" type="text" />

</li>

<li>

	<div id="another_action_button">

		<div class="buttons">

			<button type="submit">Upload</button>

		</div>

	</div>

</li>


<button type="submit" onclick="document.forms['action_edit'].submit();">

Hope this was of help…

Cheers,

Maruis Marais

6

Hi    Thanks for your help

Sijo