Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Create a form which "grows" as user needs

[Richard B. <ma...@ri...>]

I think the easiest way is to have a form, with a field "contents", and to
add textboxes to a dynlayer with setHTML (not to the form), when submitted,
get the values from the textboxes and write them to the "contents" text box
as a comma delimited string, to be parsed on the server.

Cheers,
Richard Bennett

ma...@ri...
www.richardinfo.com
(Everything running on, and ported to the 19/12/2000 snapshot of DynAPI2)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Strolia-Davis Christopher Contr MSG MAM"
<Chr...@wp...>
To: <dyn...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 3:07 PM
Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Create a form which "grows" as user needs


> Luca,
>
> The DynAPI could really help with something like this.  Because of some
> caveats with Netscape, this can be really difficult to do without using
> layers.  Yes you can add fields to the form, but getting them to actually
> show up without a history.go(0) and then losing all of your previously
> entered data is a pain.
>
> What may work better is to create an array to hold your clients values.
> Then use a setHTML on a layer to create the form object and display it to
> the user.  When the user wants to add a control, add some info about it to
> the array, and make sure you are saving value information to your array as
> well. The recreate the form text and set the HTML to the layer again.
>
> There may be a better way, but this is what jumps to mind.
>
> Hope this helps you get started,
>
> Later,
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luc...@me... [mailto:Luc...@me...]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 3:19 AM
> To: dyn...@li...
> Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] Create a form which "grows" as user needs
>
>
>
> Dear DynApi-Dev
> I am trying to use DynAPi in order to create a page which "grows" before
> submission.
> Namely,
> A page is generated which contains some fields to fill in.
> However there is one field which may have multiple values.
> SInce is not known how many values the user would need to have, and would
> be extremely
> poor from a stylistic point of view either hardcode the number of fields
or
> use a CGI-posting method
> to iterate until the final submit is given, I would like to use DynApi to
> do that.
>
> I have checked dozens of DHTML and Javascript sites as well as dejanews
but
> could not figure how
> to do that in practical terms.
>
> I have then tried with dynapi and failed.
>
> I would very much appreciate your support / suggestions.
>
> In my opinon, the DynApi does not yet implements ways to handle the above
> problem.
> I have tried with the List object but always got the IE5 to crash.
>
> I will very much appreciate your advice.
> Sorry for the triviality of the question.
> Luca
>
>
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