[whatwg] Targetting different anchors after submitting the form
Mikko Rantalainen
mikko.rantalainen at peda.net
Tue Mar 7 02:34:52 PST 2006
Ric Hardacre wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Mikko Rantalainen wrote:
>>> Perhaps something along the lines
>>>
>>> <form action="url">
>>> <input name="foo" type="submit" anchor="xfoo">
>>> <input name="bar" type="submit" anchor="xbar">
>>> </form>
>> With WF2 you can just do:
>>
>> <form action="url">
>> <input name="foo" type="submit" action="url#xfoo">
>> <input name="bar" type="submit" action="url#xbar">
>> </form>
>>
>
> indeed:
>
> 2.17. Extensions to the submit buttons
>
> ...
> In some cases, authors would like to be able to submit a form to
> different processors, using different submission methods, or not
> replacing the form but just updating the details with new data. For this
> reason, the following attributes may be used on submit buttons: action,
> method, enctype, replace, and target.
> ...
I did check the spec but somehow I missed that. Thanks for pointing
it out. I just hit the problem yesterday and I was wondering which
kind of support for this kind of feature I should be expecting in
the future, so I can make our internal application framework to be
ready for it.
--
Mikko
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