submit button for 2 forms?

[Splurd]

Can it be done? basicly I have one form, but since I am doing some JS thing, I want to split it up into two forms.Like,

<form action="sectest2.asp" method="post"><input type="text" name="haha"><br></form><form  action="sectest2.asp" method="post"><input type="text" name="hehe"><br><input type="submit" name="wow" value="Da submit buttan"><br></form>

[scott100]

Can it be done? basicly I have one form, but since I am doing some JS thing, I want to split it up into two forms.

Yes it can be done, if you give your forms a name then you can submit both with javascript.The javascript

function submitForms() {document.[color="red"]form1[/color].submit();document.[color="blue"]form2[/color].submit();}

The forms

<form action="sectest2.asp" method="post" name="[color="red"]form1[/color]">...</form><form  action="sectest2.asp" method="post" name="[color="blue"]form2[/color]">...<input type="button" value="submit" onclick="submitForms()" /></form>

[justsomeguy]

What would that do? Would it redirect you to the first or the second form?

[aspnetguy]

are both form's elements available in the POST array? I can see the need for more than one form on a page but what is the point of submitting 2 forms at once? Why not make it one form?

[justsomeguy]

Also they both get submitted to the same page.. the elements would not all be there because each submittal has a unique request and response, they aren't the same.

[scott100]

What would that do?  Would it redirect you to the first or the second form?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You would be directed to the second form and only form2 would actually be processed (i think - i done alert() tests and thats what i found)To get round this you could target each form to an iframe which doesn't require you to leave the current page.I have make a javascript test to show that both forms are processed.http://scott100.atspace.com/test.htmAs you can see from the results, when you type in different usernames both forms are processed.

[Splurd]

are both form's elements available in the POST array? I can see the need for more than one form on a page but what is the point of submitting 2 forms at once? Why not make it one form?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

because I am going to put id="ect" in the 2nd form to do JS with it, and if I combine the form it makes things somewhat complicated for me, so I was wondering it there was a way to do it. Plus it cant hurt to know if it can be done.I tried scott100's method but it only sumbited the 2nd form. Its weird tho, I put an alert in the script and it processed the first form but not the second. But if I remove the aleart, It will process the 2nd form.(eg, form1.submitalert("hoho")form2.submit)returns the first one. scott100's target thing seems to work, but I think thats besause the forum is submited twice to the pages. eg, form1 gets sumbited to the page, then form2 gets sumbited to another instance of the page. As opposed to form1 and form2 get submited to the page at the same time.

[scott100]

scott100's target thing seems to work, but I think thats besause the forum is submited twice to the pages. eg, form1 gets sumbited to the page, then form2 gets sumbited to another instance of the page. As opposed to form1 and form2 get submited to the page at the same time.

Yes that's the only way this will work (if you target an iframe), otherwise one form never gets submitted.You don't have to display the iframes, you could set there visibility to hidden.

[justsomeguy]

Or you could use javascript to copy all of one form's fields and values into the other form. But it seems like a pretty serious workaround, what's the issue with only using 1 form?