Having 2 forms/ Storing form data onto sessions?

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I am trying to find a way to have two forms on the same page. However when I hit the submit button on one form the data that had been entered on the other form disappears. Is there a way to transfer the data on a form perhaps onto sessions? I tried having one form wrap onto another but it got messy and would not work.

An example is where there are two forms one to submit a message and one to upload files. Suppose I would start writing a message on the first form and then I upload a file using a second form. After uploading the file the message of the text area field would disappear.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

-Richard

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1) nesting <form> tags is invalid HTML and will never work

2) only thing i can think of to solve this is using AJAX to submit the form.