Changes ???

[mike]

Is there anyway to tell if some of the content of a form has changed in
anyway?

For example, I have a form with some <input> elements, to include
<input type="text"... >, and <select ...>. Let's call this the "parent"
form.

On that "parent" form there is a link for a pop-up. The pop-up has
another form for data input. This "child" form has functionality that
save and then attempts to refresh the "parent" form just before it
closes.

The problem is some users do data input into the "parent" form inputs
and then press the link opening up the "child". Well you can guess it,
the data inputs are lost because the parent form gets refreshed.

So, If I know if any of the content of the parent form has changed,
then instead of executing a refresh I can save first.

Any ideas? What I'd hate to so is carte-blanc save the form inputs
every time.

Mike

 

[Matt Kruse]

Is there anyway to tell if some of the content of a form has changed
in anyway?

There is nothing built-in, but you can use my isFormModified() function
found here:
http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/validations/source.html

That should give you an easy interface to determine if any form elements are
different from their default values.

 

[mike]

Because the parent form has some information the user can update on the
child form.

For instance, there are 15 elements total, 5 of those are updated
really often so they are on the parent form, the other 10 are not. But
when the child form opens (all 15 elements are there) and updates one
of the 5 that are also on the parent, the parent data has to be changed
or the user is confounded and thinks his data was not updated because
he just changed it on the child form.

 

[mike]

Matt,

Cool, let me try that.

Mike

 

[mike]

Talk to me about that .... what are you recommending?

 

[mike]

Yep, I see that...