nested forms

**Hywel Jenkins** · Jul 20 '05, 01:49 PM

Re: nested forms

In article <OTqQb.22092$q4 .11951@newsread 3.news.atl.eart hlink.net>,
nospam@nospam.n et says...[color=blue]
> Sometimes I may have one form nested inside the other (this is an editable
> page).[/color]

You *cannot* nest forms.

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**Jeff Thies** · Jul 20 '05, 01:49 PM

Re: nested forms

"Hywel Jenkins" <hyweljenkins@h otmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1a7c4e 271cca013798999 4@news.individu al.net...[color=blue]
> In article <OTqQb.22092$q4 .11951@newsread 3.news.atl.eart hlink.net>,
> nospam@nospam.n et says...[color=green]
> > Sometimes I may have one form nested inside the other (this is an[/color][/color]
editable[color=blue][color=green]
> > page).[/color]
>
> You *cannot* nest forms.[/color]

Yes, but can I remove the nested form with javascript?

Jeff[color=blue]
>
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> Hywel I do not eat quiche
> http://hyweljenkins.co.uk/
> http://hyweljenkins.co.uk/mfaq.php[/color]

**Martin Honnen** · Jul 20 '05, 01:50 PM

Re: nested forms

Jeff Thies wrote:
[color=blue]
> Sometimes I may have one form nested inside the other (this is an editable
> page).
>
> <form name="form1">
>
> <form name="form2">
> </form>
>
> <input type="text" name="form_elem ent_for_form1">
> </form>
>
> What I'd like to do is read: form_element_fo r_form1, but the closing tag for
> form2 kills form1.
>
> How do I remove form2? It seems to be resistant![/color]

Look into the Mozilla DOM inspector on how that HTML is parsed, there
will be only one <form> element in the DOM tree which has no element
children and the <input> element doesn't have a form container:

<html>
<head>
<title>nested forms?</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function inspectForms () {
var text = '';
for (var i = 0; i < document.forms. length; i++) {
var form = document.forms[i];
text += 'form with index ' + i + ' has name ' + form.name +
' and parentNode ' + form.parentNode + ' with tagName ' +
form.parentNode .tagName + '\n';
}
if (document.getEl ementsByName) {
var input = document.getEle mentsByName('fo rm_element_for_ form1')[0];
if (input) {
text += 'input.form is ' + input.form + '\n';
}
}
alert(text);
}

window.onload = function (evt) {
inspectForms();
};
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="form1">

<form name="form2">
</form>

<input type="text" name="form_elem ent_for_form1">
</form>
</body>
</html>

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