> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Close [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:14 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Why does <html:submit> work differently than <html:link > action="">? > > > > The form is being submitted to wherever the <form says, > regardless of method used to submit. So, action and forward > are entirely inappropriate to use for the link in this case. > They have nothing to do with the what you want to do, which > is submit the form using javascript. What was happening, in > your case, was the onclick was firing the submit and then you > were being sent to the link, and things got confused. > > ok, that was probably part of my problem. i also think i was asking > the wrong question (as well as blindly replying to ppls posts trying > to help them understand what i was doing. :) > > the one thing i'm still fuzzy with is why would the actionform only > populate with one of the three hidden field values? only the one that > was being set via the javascript showed up on the next page. did the > action servlet drop the page and only take the javascript value that > was handed to it? of is there something else happening behind the > scenes with action and forward that i just don't see yet? > i'm just curious. i'd like to understand better how everything ties > together (and works).
With what you had... the struts stuff was either completely confused or out of the picture entirely.. essentially you had a browser submitting a form and going to a link at the same time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
