Hi all, We had suffered an strange behavior, which i would like to share for comments. We have a Panel (loaded with ajax) with many Forms inside (because each needs different models). Some of these Forms are only visible under certain conditions, so we overwrote isVisible with the condition. Also, the Panel can be updated, so the Forms have setOutputMarkupPlaceholderTag(true) to make them visible later. That triggered a problem in the rendering of the ajax response.
After some investigation, the problem seems to be: -When a Form is visible, Form#onComponentTag replaces the tag "form" by "div" (because it's nor the Root form of the page), this works ok. -When a Form is invisible, Form#onComponentTag is never called. Instead, Component#render builds the response by itself, using markupStream.getTag().getName(), which answers the tag "form". -Then, the ajax response has a mix of "div" and "form". Apparently, all goes ok until the first "form" is found, then the parsing goes somehow crazy and this first "form" gets lost from the DOM, and the next forms and divs get inserted outside (one level in DOM) the main component being replaced by the ajax call. We have found no way to fix it in the Form class itself. Component uses markupStream.getTag() (which answers "form"). That is, it does not ask the component for the tag to answer, but instead trusts in the HTML side. And we can't change our html to say "div", because Form also checks (when visible) that the tag says "form" (checkComponentTag(tag, "form")). The solution was to put the missbehaving forms inside Panels, which do not suffer this problem, and then make the panels visible/invisible (also with OutputMarkupPlaceholderTag). We have it running now, but we wanted to know if there was some better solution, or perpahs something should be fixed to prevent future problems, for example: -inform somehow if a form is being set as invisible with setOutputMarkupPlaceholderTag(true)? -let Component ask itself for the tag to output in case of invisible + setOutputMarkupPlaceholderTag(true), instead of just putting what the markup says... then Form could say "no, i want a div here". -other? Thanks in advance, German
