Re: no,no,no,Re: [PHP] HTML_AJAX and formSubmit method - Yes ! But why ?

Georgi Ivanov wrote:

I didn't understood what are you saying at first. I don't control the JS code . It is generated from the HTML_AJAX code. The problem was fixed when calling formSubmit method like this : HTML_AJAX.formSubmit(this,target) // No quotes here; target is just a string ! instead of : HTML_AJAX.formSubmit(this,'target') // This was in the example i've used for testing So i didn't changed the HTML_AJAX code. Just the client code. Now the problem is fixed but i still don't understand why ...

maybe you're misunderstanding strings and variables (and the difference between the 2) in javascript (forgive me if I am wrong on this). Either way you have hacked round a what seems to be bug in HTML_AJAX: if (typeof target == 'string') { target = document.getElementById('target'); } in the above target is a variable - which if of type string is fed to the document.getElementById() method - only the variable is not passed but instead a string literal is passed (which happens to contain the name of the variable that should have been passed)

On Wednesday April 5 2006 16:05, Georgi Ivanov wrote:

does the following make it work? ...

Yes it did ! But why ? I'm passing string ... not variable... I don't understand ....

Georgi Ivanov wrote: ...

formSubmit: function (form, target, customRequest) {

       if (typeof form == 'string') {
           form = document.getElementById(form);
           if (!form) {
               // let the submit be processed normally
               return false;
           }
       }
       if (typeof target == 'string') {

//I think we MUST go here but it seems we don't...

           target = document.getElementById('target');

target = document.getElementById(target);

		//               ^-- no quotes!

       }
       if (!target) {

//I guess we enter here but we shouldn't.....

           target = form;
       }

.......................... The script seems to be OK but... So generally this script works ONLY if the DIV is with ID=target and function called like this : HTML_AJAX.formSubmit(this,'target') If i change the div with ID=alabala and call the script with : HTML_AJAX.formSubmit(this,'alabala') it does not work. Any ideas ?