Dear Struts-Community, assumed we use a composite-view, which is composed by multiple 'tiles' delivered by several Design-Team members. Every of this tile is free to define it's own form-areas (<html:form...>) and appropriate action(s). Furthermore we have a 'Menu-Tile' which Buttons/Links refers to certain tiles in the content area. Clickin' such a Link should submit a certain Action (using more than one Action within a form and therefore a DispatchAction) in a certain form (including all the properties within the form).
This could work like this ... <jsp-snipet> ... <SCRIPT> function callAction(targetAction) { setAction(targetAction); document.forms[0].submit(); } function setAction(targetAction) { document.forms[0].dispatch.value=target; } </SCRIPT> ... <!-- Menu-Tile --> ... <td width="30%"> MENU <br> <br> <html:link href="#" onclick="javascript:callAction( 'add' )"> Add </html:link> <br> <html:link href="#" onclick="javascript:callAction( 'delete' )"> Delete </html:link> <br> <html:image src="/Struts_WEB/images/fix.jpg" onclick="callAction('fix');" /> </td> ... <!-- my content-Tile ..> ... <html:form action="/processMultiButton.do" > <html:hidden property="dispatch" value="error"/> first name <html:text value="" property="firstname"/> last name <html:text value="" property="lastname"/> <html:submit onclick="setAction('add');">Hinzufuegen</html:submit> <html:submit onclick="setAction('delete');">Entfernen</html:submit> <html:image src="/Struts_WEB/images/fix.jpg" onclick="setAction('fix');" /> </html:form> ... <!-- here comes another contet-Tile with another form-definition and so on --> ... </jsp-snipet> My Problem is the fact, that i have to refer to a certain form by an index (document.forms[0]...) but not by name (document.forms[myFormName]). Since we have more than one form in the content area (and this could change dynamically, so i do not know how many form definitions we have after all) it is not assured that i always refer for sure to the same form by using an index. If i could assign a name to a form-definition (like <form name="myFormName"...> - see 'pure HTML form-tag attributes') than the position of the form within the content-area would be irelevant since i refer to that certain form by using its name, like ... <snipet> function callAction(targetAction, formName) { document.forms[0].dispatch.value=targetAction; document.forms[0].submit(); } ... <!-- Menu-Tile --> ... <html:link href="#" onclick="javascript:callAction( 'delete', 'myFormName' )"> Loeschen </html:link> ... </snipet> ...but the <html:form ...> tag does not offer an attribute to set a forms name ... Is there any chance to achive this (refer to a form by name but not by index) or may be another / better solution for this problem? Any help is appreciated !!! :o) Thanks in adcance :o)) Mario Gleichmann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]