in html and javascript there's no "one way to do it". you can come up with
a lot of solutions....but for this particular case, I'd either trigger a
submit event on the form or a click on the "original" submit button.
On Monday, November 10, 2014 10:35:43 PM UTC+1, weheh wrote:
>
> I think I just came up with a stupid simple way to do this. Just hide the
> regular submit button and trigger("click") on it when the other button is
> pressed. What do you think?
>
>
> On Monday, November 10, 2014 1:25:49 PM UTC-8, weheh wrote:
>>
>> I wish to create an ajax button that is outside the <form> ... </form>
>> created by SQLFORM.factory, such that when I click the ajax button it will
>> self-submit the form. Is this possible?
>>
>> For instance
>>
>> def mytest():
>> form=SQLFORM.factory(Field("mytext","text", requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()))
>> # add some form.element stuff to remove the submit button or make a
>> custom form in the view, sans the submit button
>> if form.process().accepted:
>> # do stuff with form.vars.mytext or some such
>> else:
>> # blah blah
>> return dict(form=form)
>>
>>
>> # but in my view there is
>> {{=form}}
>> {{# some more stuff}}
>> {{# finally the button that does the magic of submitting the form}}
>> {{= TAG.BUTTON("click me", _onclick="ajax something or other")}}
>>
>>
>> such that the "click me" button submits the form. What does the onclick
>> function look like such that it submits the form as if the original form
>> submit button was working its usual magic?
>>
>
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