Showing posts with label forms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forms. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Unobtrusive dynamic form fields in Rails with jQuery


I'm attempting to get over the hurdle of dynamic form fields in Rails -- this appears to be something the framework doesn't handle very gracefully. I'm also using jQuery in my project. I have jRails installed, but I'd much rather write the AJAX code unobtrusively where possible.

Friday, June 1, 2012

JavaScript post request like a form submit


I'm trying to direct a browser to a different page. If I wanted a GET request, I might say

Sunday, May 13, 2012

How not to lose focus on a login page


I have a simple login form with 2 input fields: "username" and "password". "username" field is focused by default. The problem is that when user clicks outside "username" or "password" fields, the focus is gone (it is neither on "username" nor on "password" fields"). How can I force the focus to be on these 2 fields only ?

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

How can I implement Stack Overflow-like watermarks in forms?


I remember seeing a tutorial somewhere that talks of how to style your input forms in a more “usable” way.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Prevent Back button from showing POST confirmation alert


I have an application that supplies long list of parameters to a web page, so I have to use POST instead of GET. The problem is that when page gets displayed and user clicks the Back button, Firefox shows up a warning:

Friday, February 17, 2012

Using jquery.calculation.js with dynamically added form fields


I'm creating a form with dynamically added fields and would like to sum all added fields. So far I have the following code, but it only sums the first row:

Monday, February 13, 2012

Trigger a form submit on a different page - Rails 3


So, I have a form on page 'A' which lets users type in the name of a band and see album covers and prices, courtesy of the Amazon API.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

mysql row turning into attributes


I need help with an <input> . Some times when I call for the var to be inserted into the value="" part of the <input> it makes every word into an attribute. For example my tag will look like this <input type="hidden" name="article" this="" is="" the="" article="" text="" />

Some form values not getting submitted after using .replaceWith()


Let's say I have this form:

Monday, January 16, 2012

Mocking a JSP"s post method versus creation an API


I have an requirement as per which I have to call an existing java function which is called from the UI through jsp. Data is provided from a form.

PHP from quotation mark output


I use a similar form on a regular basis and have just become aware that whenever a single OR double quotation mark is inputted into the form the output to myself (through email) displays the quotation mark as the ASCII code so \' with a backslash ive looked around and dipped into unique character encodings specialentities but cant seem to find anything that will help output it as a normal quotation mark.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Stretching a HTML Input Box alongside additional input?


I'm using jQuery on this site, which has form inputs. I'd like one particular field to get longer (width) as the user enters data and space runs out.

Keep form values after page reload - Codeigniter


How can I keep checkboxes selected after the form has been submitted? I found the set_checkbox function in the Codeigniter User Guide, but it doesn't work.