Thanks for the ideas!
steve
> From: German Rumyancev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 00:40:31 +0200
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: form element positions
>
> Hello Steve,
>
> Well, there is no way you can find it out. coordinates are not
> transmitted with the data. coordinated are purely client side values.
> There are few tricks you can use, though. All I can think of are
> javascript-based.
>
> For example, you can catch form's onsubmit event, or Submit button's
> onclick, and iterate through form elements, collecting elements' position
> properties. I am sure, that cross-browser compatibility will be really
> HARD to accomplish.
>
> But for IE6(maybe even lower) you can use the following snippet:
> function getCoordinates() {
> for (i = 0; i < form1.length; i++) {
> // of course, instead of displaying coordinates you should do smth
> // useful :-), like storing them in a type="hidden" field.
> // apart from .name, .offsetLeft and .offsetTop you might use
> // .type property, just in case there are hidden fields, that you
> // don't need to display
> alert(form1[i].name + ", left: " + form1[i].offsetLeft + ", Top: " +
> form1[i].offsetTop + "\n");
> }
> }
> ...
> <form name="form1" onsubmit="getCoordinates()">
>
> If you don't have control over originating form, then you will have to
> use some more tricks, like loading HTTP_REFERER inside <iframe> with
> width and height set to 0 (to conceal it from user), and trying to
> execute the same snippet on the loaded form.
> ...or, you can just open remote file, parse it, and display to the
> user.
>
> HTH,
> German
>
> SM> Thanks German, but I think I wasn't clear enough in my question. I don't
> SM> need to know the order of elements, but their actual x,y coordinates on
> the
> SM> submitted page. I am trying to reproduce the form which was submitted.
>
>>> AFAIK, form elements are sent in the order they appear on a page,
>>> meaning that the topmost will be sent first.
>>>
>>> When using GET method you can just parse QUERY_STRING.
>>> If you are using POST method, you will have to parse RAW_POST_DATA.
>>> But in PHP $_GET and $_POST array are populated in that order already.
>>> So you can just tarverse $_POST and $_GET arrays using foreach() - the
>>> order key=>value pairs will popup will be the order they are positioned on
>>> the
>>> original web-page.
>>>
>>> Monday, February 03, 2003, 11:12:41 PM, you wrote:
>>>
>>> SM> Does anyone know how to detect the position of submitted form elements
>>> on
>>> a
>>> SM> webpage? I know that submit buttons or images will send x,y coordinates,
>>> but
>>> SM> what about text boxes, checkboxes, etc? I am trying to extract this info
>>> SM> from submitted forms. Any thoughts would be helpful and appreciated.
>>>
>>> SM> steve miller
>
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