Ah. That makes sense. I admit I skimmed the code and interpolated :)
On Apr 3, 11:30 am, Mike Alsup <mal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When ajaxForm submits a form that has a file, it opens an iframe, > > copies your filled-in form to the iframe, submits the form *in the > > iframe*, then copies the response back to you. Very nice. > > That's not quite how it works. Nothing is copied to the iframe. The > original form is submitted via a normal browser submit by invoking the > submit function on the form element (ie: formElement.submit() ). The > response is directed to a dynamically created iframe by adding a > "target" attribute to the form before it is submitted. There is some > pre and post processing around all of this, but essentially that's how > it works. > > Mike
