Re: Randomely generated numbers for select elements

akira wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have javascript code that allows me to duplicate HTML select elemets, 
> although the users can delete the elements, each newly generated element 
> gets a new name number in ascemding order, for example:
> <input id="test-0" type="checkbox" name="test-0" value="${c.publicize}" 
> checked="${c.publicize}">
> <input id="test-1" type="checkbox" name="test-1" value="${c.publicize}" 
> checked="${c.publicize}">               
> <input id="test-2" type="checkbox" name="test-2" value="${c.publicize}" 
> checked="${c.publicize}">  
> 
> this works till the user posts the form, and I create new elemenets 
> based on waht I retrieved  from formencode, since I just generate new 
> names and ids in ascending order, things get out of sync  on the front-end.
> 
> I wpuld like to know if formencode can also deal with randomly generated 
> values like:
> 
> 
> <input id="test-131"
> <input id="test-424"
> <input id="test-244"
> 
> would I still be able to access the values with my existing code, would 
> they still be grouped?

Sure, it just sorts them by number, and then groups.  But then it'll 
probably recreate.

Maybe you should use test.x131, test.x424, etc -- using a dictionary 
instead of a list.  You'll need to use something like ForEach, but that 
knows about dictionaries; neither Schema nor ForEach will really work 
right, but adapting ForEach shouldn't be too hard.

   Ian


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