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Old July 20th, 2005, 05:10 PM
Michael Hill
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Is it possible to have nested forms?

<form name="form1" method="post" action="pgm1">
<input type="text1">
<form name="form2" method="post" action="pgm2">
<input type="text2">
<input type="submit" value="submit form2">
</form>
<input type="submit" value="submit form1">
</form>

and when form1 is submitted action is agaisnt pgm1 with vars from from1
and when form2 is submitted action is against pgm2 with vars from form2


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Old July 20th, 2005, 05:10 PM
Jukka K. Korpela
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re: nested forms


Michael Hill <hillmw@ram.lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:
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> Is it possible to have nested forms?[/color]

No, the HTML syntax explicitly forbids them.
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> and when form1 is submitted action is agaisnt pgm1 with vars from
> from1 and when form2 is submitted action is against pgm2 with vars
> from form2[/color]

No, you need to use a single form with two submit buttons and to set up
the server-side form handler so that it recognizes which button was
used and branches accordingly.

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Old July 20th, 2005, 05:10 PM
Darin McGrew
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re: nested forms


Michael Hill <nospamhillmw@ram.lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Is it possible to have nested forms?[/color]

No.

But it is possible to have a single form with multiple submit buttons, and
a server-side (e.g., CGI) program that does different things depending on
what submit button was used.

See also http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/html/forms.html#two-submit
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