Ok Mike. Thanks for the help.
As I stated in my last email, the use case is an autosave function for a very large form. I have a setTimeout call that runs a saveForm function. The form elements should be serialized and submitted via ajax. The calback function pops up a little window that notifies the user that the form has been autosaved. The user interface continues to show the form. When the user has completed working with the form and presses the submit button, the form fully submits and the screen hard-refreshes to another page. I have all of this working via DWR but I am having trouble with the serialization in DWR as it uses XML. The form is so large that xml serialization creates such a large data packet (15KB ) that it is refused by the webserver. >From what I saw of the form plugin, it takes control of the form submit. I want the form submit to work as a normal HTML based form submit. I will handle calling the ajax form submit via the setTimeout mechanism I previously mentioned. So my questions are: 1) Will the form plugin work if only called through a function? 2) Will I be able to maintain the normal ( non-ajax ) function of the form submit button? 3) What serialization options are available? 4) How are special characters ( like the high unicode characters from a MSWord paste) handled? I can say they are not much loved in the XML serialization I am currently using? Thanks in advance Dan Wilson -- "Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew." Guillaume Apollinaire quotes _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
