Re: [xwiki-users] Hidden input after select, radio or checkbox, why ?
Denis Gervalle wrote:
> Sergiu,
>
> Do you means that this trick is used because the save action of XWiki
> is unaware of the list of field shown to the user by the preceding
> inline action, and you do not know if a field should be updated or
> left unchanged when it is not sent back ?
>
See http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-443
>
> On 23 sept. 08, at 18:54, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
>
>> Denis Gervalle wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Does anyone here knows why displayEdit of ListClass fields with a
>>> display type of checkbox, radiobutton or select is always followed
>>> with a hidden input tag, having the same name than the visible
>>> control ?
>>>
>>> Here is an excerpt of the source code that cause this :
>>> if (!getDisplayType().equals("input")) {
>>> org.apache.ecs.xhtml.input hidden = new
>>> input(input.hidden, prefix + name, "");
>>> buffer.append(hidden);
>>> }
>>>
>>> I really wonder what is the need for that, and if I can remove it,
>>> since this seems to break some screen readers, that makes confusion
>>> between listbox and combobox due to this hidden field.
>>> Thanks in advance for any advices.
>>>
>> It is needed because of the way HTML forms work. Without the empty
>> field, you would not be able to unselect all options, because the
>> browser does not send back the field name if it doesn't have any value
>> to associate with it. The empty hidden field is used by the wiki
>> engine
>> to detect if it is a field with no values selected, or no field at
>> all.
>>
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Re: [xwiki-users] Hidden input after select, radio or checkbox, why ?
Denis Gervalle wrote:
> Sergiu,
>
> Do you means that this trick is used because the save action of XWiki
> is unaware of the list of field shown to the user by the preceding
> inline action, and you do not know if a field should be updated or
> left unchanged when it is not sent back ?
Exactly.
> Denis
>
> On 23 sept. 08, at 18:54, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
>
>> Denis Gervalle wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Does anyone here knows why displayEdit of ListClass fields with a
>>> display type of checkbox, radiobutton or select is always followed
>>> with a hidden input tag, having the same name than the visible
>>> control ?
>>>
>>> Here is an excerpt of the source code that cause this :
>>> if (!getDisplayType().equals("input")) {
>>> org.apache.ecs.xhtml.input hidden = new
>>> input(input.hidden, prefix + name, "");
>>> buffer.append(hidden);
>>> }
>>>
>>> I really wonder what is the need for that, and if I can remove it,
>>> since this seems to break some screen readers, that makes confusion
>>> between listbox and combobox due to this hidden field.
>>> Thanks in advance for any advices.
>>>
>> It is needed because of the way HTML forms work. Without the empty
>> field, you would not be able to unselect all options, because the
>> browser does not send back the field name if it doesn't have any value
>> to associate with it. The empty hidden field is used by the wiki
>> engine
>> to detect if it is a field with no values selected, or no field at
>> all.
>>
>> --
>> Sergiu Dumitriu
>> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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Re: [xwiki-users] Hidden input after select, radio or checkbox, why ?
Sergiu,
Do you means that this trick is used because the save action of XWiki
is unaware of the list of field shown to the user by the preceding
inline action, and you do not know if a field should be updated or
left unchanged when it is not sent back ?
Denis
On 23 sept. 08, at 18:54, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> Denis Gervalle wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anyone here knows why displayEdit of ListClass fields with a
>> display type of checkbox, radiobutton or select is always followed
>> with a hidden input tag, having the same name than the visible
>> control ?
>>
>> Here is an excerpt of the source code that cause this :
>> if (!getDisplayType().equals("input")) {
>> org.apache.ecs.xhtml.input hidden = new
>> input(input.hidden, prefix + name, "");
>> buffer.append(hidden);
>> }
>>
>> I really wonder what is the need for that, and if I can remove it,
>> since this seems to break some screen readers, that makes confusion
>> between listbox and combobox due to this hidden field.
>> Thanks in advance for any advices.
>>
>
> It is needed because of the way HTML forms work. Without the empty
> field, you would not be able to unselect all options, because the
> browser does not send back the field name if it doesn't have any value
> to associate with it. The empty hidden field is used by the wiki
> engine
> to detect if it is a field with no values selected, or no field at
> all.
>
> --
> Sergiu Dumitriu
> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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Re: [xwiki-users] Hidden input after select, radio or checkbox, why ?
Denis Gervalle wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone here knows why displayEdit of ListClass fields with a
> display type of checkbox, radiobutton or select is always followed
> with a hidden input tag, having the same name than the visible control ?
>
> Here is an excerpt of the source code that cause this :
> if (!getDisplayType().equals("input")) {
> org.apache.ecs.xhtml.input hidden = new
> input(input.hidden, prefix + name, "");
> buffer.append(hidden);
> }
>
> I really wonder what is the need for that, and if I can remove it,
> since this seems to break some screen readers, that makes confusion
> between listbox and combobox due to this hidden field.
> Thanks in advance for any advices.
>
It is needed because of the way HTML forms work. Without the empty
field, you would not be able to unselect all options, because the
browser does not send back the field name if it doesn't have any value
to associate with it. The empty hidden field is used by the wiki engine
to detect if it is a field with no values selected, or no field at all.
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[xwiki-users] Hidden input after select, radio or checkbox, why ?
Hi all,
Does anyone here knows why displayEdit of ListClass fields with a
display type of checkbox, radiobutton or select is always followed
with a hidden input tag, having the same name than the visible control ?
Here is an excerpt of the source code that cause this :
if (!getDisplayType().equals("input")) {
org.apache.ecs.xhtml.input hidden = new
input(input.hidden, prefix + name, "");
buffer.append(hidden);
}
I really wonder what is the need for that, and if I can remove it,
since this seems to break some screen readers, that makes confusion
between listbox and combobox due to this hidden field.
Thanks in advance for any advices.
Denis
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