Re: Ref: Embed a form within a form

[email protected] (Jim Giner)
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/10/2013 1:13 PM, John Taylor-Johnston wrote:
> I asked a question about embedding a form within a form, which I
> realised after was out of the bounds of PHP.
> I also asked if PHP could help me open a form in another window. ...
> Sometimes PHP can do magic things, but not that.
>
> However, for anyone wondering, it is possible to do both. This is what I
> have come up with using jquery:
>
> I didn't need to create an extra parent DIV and name it id="place_here".
> Naming a table cell id="place_here" and making it the parent to DIV
> id="div_2" was enough.
> This is a brilliant little work around. Works in Firefox and IE.
>
>      <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
>      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr"
> lang="fr"><head>
>      <title>test / crtp</title>
>
>      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>      <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
>
>      <script type="text/javascript">
>      $(document).ready(function () {
>          position_mdiv()();
>          $(window).resize(function() {
>              position_mdiv();
>          });
>      })
>
>      function position_mdiv(){
>
>          var pos = $('#place_here').position();
>          var width = $('#place_here').outerWidth();
>
>          $('#div_2').css({
>          position: "absolute",
>          top: pos.top +2 + "px",
>          left: (pos.left -300 + width) + "px"
>      });
>
>      }
>
>      </script>
>      <body>
>
>      <form id="CTRP_Form">
>      <table border="1">
>      <tr>
>      <td>
>      <div id="div_1"><input id="fnam" name="fnam" form="CTRP_Form"
> type="text"><input type=submit></div>
>      </td>
>      <td id="place_here"
> style="background:yellow;width:300px;padding:0px;border:solid 2px
> #CCC"></td>
>      </tr>
>      </table>
>      </form>
>
>
>      <div id="div_2"><form id="query_Form"
> target="_somewhereelse"><input id="MyQuery" name="MyQuery"
> form="query_Form" type="text"><input type=submit></form></div>
>
>      </body>
>      </html>
A div in a table cell?  What does that buy you over a the id on the 
input element?
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