I have several sections in my page that I need to include under the same form tag, but doing so breaks the HTML. For example:
<div>
<form name="firstform">
<input type="text" name="input1" />
<input type="text" name="input2" />
<input type="text" name="input3" />
</div>
<p>bla bla</p>
<div>
<form name="secondform">
<input type="text" name="one" />
</form>
<input type="text" name="input4">
</form>
So basically I want to submit the form firstform but in a way that will include input4 but without submitting secondform?
EDIT:
I have a pretty long page with a lot of inputs, in the middle of the page I have a different form that is used to allow file upload which I want to keep where it is in the page, however, after that section I have a continuation of the first form. so I have the first form, then another form with the file upload and then the rest of the first form.
If you want to have multiple forms, use one form tag with multiple submit buttons. Give to the buttons name and value and its time a user submit the form, chech in the back end which button has been pushed.
You could simply add an html button with an onClick event that calls a function to mimic a nested form. If the second form's onSubmit function is pure javaScript this could be a quick cut/paste. If your second form is communicating with a server you'll have to jump into some AJAX.
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I have one Form which have one submit button let us name this as FORM 1 and inside that form I have another form with one submit button and this form name is FORM 2. Now my problem is When i am clicking submit button of FORM 2, FORM 2 submit button is using an action of FORM 1 which i don't want. I know its sounds confusion but check the codes you will come to know :
<form action="pks.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="mob">
<input type="text" name="opr">
<form action="pksa.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="opra">
<input type="submit" value="SUBMIT">
</form>
<input type="submit" value="SUBMIT">
</form>
I am trying something like to achieve but i am not able to Please help me out
I have one Form which have one submit button let us name this as FORM
1 and inside that form I have another form with one submit button and
this form name is FORM 2.
In HTML you cannot nest <form> elements. This simply results in invalid markup and undefined behavior. You will have to reorganize your markup in a way that doesn't involve nested forms.
You cannot have nested forms. Browsers won't allow that. Actually if you inspect the form in browser developer tools, you will see that child forms are removed.
I have an <a> link which will only open if I right click it and click on "open in a new tab. If i just click it normally it just puts a "?" after the rest of the link, like this: "http://localhost:8011/login.html?".
Code:
<div class="login-page">
<div class="form">
<form class="login-form">
<input type="text" placeholder="Username" />
<input type="password" placeholder="Password" />
<button class="login">login</button>
<p class="message">Not registered? Create an account</p>
</form>
</div>
</div>
If i put target="_self" it still doesn't work. The two files are definitely in the same folder.
Your HTML is invalid. It is forbidden to put a <button> inside an <a>. Use a validator.
The effect you see is due to error recovery reacting badly and your clicks being handled by different elements.
will only open if I right click it and click on "open in a new tab
This is what happens when you right click on the <a> element.
If i just click it normally it just puts a "?" after the rest of the link
This is what happens when you submit a form using a submit button (and the form has no successful controls in it, which is the case here because none of your controls have names).
If you want a link, then use a link and only a link. Get rid of the <button> element.
If you want something that looks like a button then first think about what message you are sending to the user. Buttons do things. Links go places. Giving the user a visual signal that they are doing something is likely to be wrong.
If you still want a link that looks like a button, then style it with CSS.
That said, having a link marked Login which doesn't submit the form is just confusing. You should probably:
Keep the <button>
Get rid of the <a>
Give your form controls name attributes
Make the form use method="POST"
… and then write server side code to process the data so the login form can be used to login to the site.
You can change your HTML form to be as follows so that the form is submitted when login is clicked:
<div class="form">
<form class="login-form" method="POST" action="index.html">
<!-- user inputs -->
<input type="text" name="username" placeholder="Username" />
<input type="password" name="password" placeholder="Password" />
<!-- your submit button -->
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="login">
<!-- your other link -->
<p class="message">Not registered? Create an account</p>
</form>
</div>
This approach will be better than the current one for creating a login form.
This way you still have your button that will redirect to index.html without having to use a messy approach with <a> and <button>.
It's because you've a button, and it's trying to submit the form.
Try using bootstrap and give the <a> tag some classes, like this:
<div class="login-page">
<div class="form">
<form class="login-form">
<input type="text" placeholder="Username" />
<input type="password" placeholder="Password" />
login
<p class="message">Not registered? Create an account</p>
</form>
</div>
</div>
Or just give style to your <a> by css, but if you use the button, then you're submitting the form instead clicking the link.
EDIT: you could also wrap the <a> inside the button, so the link on the <a> will execute first instead of submitting the form
<button class="login">login</button>
here is my code
<body>
<input type=text name=name>
<form action=new3.jsp method=post name="f1">
<input type=text name=name>
<input type=submit value=next>
</form>
<form action=new1.jsp method=post>
<input type=submit value=back>
</form>
</body>
as you can see there are two forms here with two different submit buttons named "next" and "back". The text box is in the form where "next" button is. My question is here how to send the value of this text box to "new1.jsp" clicking "back button" without using javascript. Thanks in advance...
Don't post form to JSPs. Post the to servlets instead, and let the server analyze the parameters and forward to the appropriate JSP depending on which button has been clicked:
<form action="/controllerServlet" method="post" name="f1">
<input type="text" name="name"/>
<input type="submit" name="destination" value="next"/>
<input type="submit" name="destination" value="back"/>
</form>
Using the above form (which BTW, is valid HTML), the servlet can use the value of the "destination" parameter. If it's "next", it should forward to new3.jsp. If it's back, it should forward to "new1.jsp". And if, for example, you want to redisplay the same page because the user didn't enter a valid value in the text field, it can do so.
That's the well-known MVC pattern. You should use it.
There is a HTML form which has some text input fields and 2 buttons, say Yes and No. Instead of accessing the URL first and then filling up the form, how can I fill up those text fields which I need to fill and do the action of either one of the buttons in a single URL?
E.g. Take this form for example: there are 2 fields text1 and text2.
http://www.mysite.com?text1=value1&text2=value2
In the above e.g.(hope that is right) how to add the button action also, is my question.
Appreciate your help.
Typically YES/NO choices are represented with a pair of radio buttons. These values would automatically be sent back with the form submission, based on the name of the radio buttons.
Use submit inputs instead of buttons.
<form>
<input type="submit" name="submitbutton" value="Yes" />
<input type="submit" name="submitbutton" value="No" />
</form>
Then you can grab what button the user pressed to send the form using PHP, JSP, ASP or whatever is your server-side language.
This is not possible unless you have control over the file displaying the form. If you do have control over that file I can show you how with JavaScript. It would make much more sense to use the serverside language filling the form in though.
Can be done through javascript:
Put input type=hidden in your form, and fill the value with a button and submit right after that.
<form name="name_of_form" action="" method="GET">
<input type="hidden" name="button_value" value="" id="hidden_value" />
<button type="button" onclick="javascript:submit_form('yes');">Yes</button>
<button type="button" onclick="javascript:submit_form('no');">No</button>
</form>
And add this JS function at the top somewhere
function submit_form(yesno)
{
document.getElementById('hidden_value').value=yesno;
document.name_of_form.submit();
}
note: Although it should work, I can't tell for sure, cause i suck at JS.
I have just started HTML5 and want to know in general if we should use one <form> tag per web page or multiple form tags.
Maybe it depends on the situation, but here are two different scenarios:
One Sign Up form
A home page with multiple sub forms: Login, Join Mailing List, etc.
Is it bad to have a form tag inside another or is it ok per standards?
Thanks
Edit
Can you please explain in a simple way what the purpose of the form tag is?
I feel like you've already answered your questions.
One sign up form = one form tags.
Multiple forms = many form tags.
Just don't nest them.
EDIT
Form tags are meant to hold a variety of fields (i.e. input tags) that you will eventually pass to a target URL using a GET or POST request.
Take this login form, for example:
<form action="login.php">
<input id="name" type="text" name="name">
<input id="passwd" type="password" name="passwd">
<input type="submit" value="Login">
</form>
This has a login, a password, and a submit button. When the "Login" button (type = "submit") is pressed, the form will take that information and send it to another URL (in this case, "login.php", and that URL will handle the information accordingly (e.g. validate, sign you in, display captcha).
There is no reason why you can't have multiple forms on a single page. You just can't nest forms, because then the forms aren't able to identify which fields are for what.
Conceptually, if you need to have the information for two forms occupy the same section or area on your site (for example, if you were combining your sign-up and email list forms or something), you would use a single form and sort out the information from the POST variable on the other end. So long as you name things in a way that makes sense, you shouldn't even want nested forms to accomplish this.
Edit:
To further answer your question, a form tag, in its most basic use case, is used to submit data to a URL. The URL you choose to submit a form to typically receives that data and processes it in some way before taking action on that data, like storing the data in a database, or creating a new user based on a given username and password.
Putting forms inside forms doesn't make sense, how would you differentiate the fields inside each form now? Are they part of the master form? The child form? Both?
Separate forms for each area that you will need to read input from is best practice. If you have a login area, make a form for it. If you also have a comment area on that page, a separate form should handle that event.
Yes, we can use multiple tags inside one single HTML page. Sometimes we need to submit two distinct data from a single HTML page. To do so we need to use multiple tags. We use a tag to send our data to a particular servlet or JSP (in case of JAVA). We provide information about the client through the . there is an attribute inside the tag called as action="#". We defined the particular servlet name where the data inside the must go.Thus we provide data from a client (HTML) to a servlet (server). Then the servlet manipulates the provided data like inserting the data into the database. The following code can be a help to understand. Here two tags are used for two different task, and also they will be handled by two different servlets.
<%# page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Registration | Badhon</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="registration.css">
</head>
<body background="images/registration.jpg">
<div class="title">
<h1>Registration</h1>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="left">
<div><h1>Choose an image (300*300)</h1></div>
/* First Form tag ---------------------*/
<form name="fileform" method="post" action="uploadImage" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<br> <label for="photo"> Portrait Photo: </label> <input
type="file" name="photo" size="50" placeholder="Upload Your Image"
required /><br>
<br> <input type="submit" value="Save">
</form>
/* End of First Form Tag---------------------*/
</div>
<div class="right">
<div class="formbox">
/* Second Form tag------------------ */
<form action="DonarRegister">
<p>Name</p>
<input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name">
<p>Username</p>
<input type="text" name="username" placeholder="User_name">
<p>Password</p>
<input type="Password" name="password" placeholder="..........">
<p>Blood Group</p>
<input type="text" name="bloodgroup" placeholder="O positive">
<p>Age</p>
<input type="number" name="age">
<p>Mobile Number</p>
<input type="text" name="mobilenumber" placeholder="......">
<p>email</p>
<input type="text" name="email" placeholder="......">
<p>Address</p>
<input type="text" name="address" placeholder="Village/Thana/District">
<input type="submit" name="" value="Register">
<p> <h5>Have already an account !! Then just login</h5></p>
</form>
/* End of Second form tag ----------------- */
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
database and so on.