Topic: Only submit filled in form fields?

Only submit filled in form fields?

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Posted By: Akuma_Devil
Posted On: Sunday, December 4, 2005 05:47 PM

Hi,

I have a very large form with about 1000 input fields, most of which stay empty. On submit it transfers around 150kB (about 20kB is actually user input).

Is there a way to only submit the form elements that are not empty?

Cheers.

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Re: Only submit filled in form fields?

Posted By: Axel_Richter
Posted On: Monday, December 5, 2005 02:05 AM

Hi,

with JavaScript you can run over all elements in your form on submit (onsubmit). Then you can set empty text-fields disabled. Fields that are disabled, are not successful controls. Thus will not submitted.

Example:


        "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">


remove empty fields

But so you are depended on JavaScript. The better way is IMHO, to split the long form into smaller parts, that can individually be submitted.

Greetings

Axel

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