Problem with links and hitting enter in a form.

Kalle,

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Kalle Säilä <[hidden email]> wrote:
> my problem is related to DOMActivate event. Let's say that you have a form
> with multiple input fields and you want to trigger the submit button at the
> bottom of the form when the user hits the enter key in any input field. I
> know that if I put the input fields for example in group element I can
> dispatch the DOMActivate event in a single action inside the group but the
> problem is that if I have also links in the form the event also gets
> dispatched when the user clicks the link. I also know that I can solve this
> problem by putting the dispatch action inside all the input tags but this
> forces me to use the same code fragment in many places instead of just one.
> So my question is that is it possible to fire the dispatch action only if
> the DOMActivate event comes from an input field?

Interesting question! In your event handler, in the <xforms:group> you
have around "everything", you can use event('xxforms:binding') to get
the node bound to the target of the event. If you don't have a
ref="..." or bind="..." on your triggers, then
event('xxforms:binding') will return an empty nodeset when you click
on triggers. E.g.:

<xforms:action ev:event="DOMActivate"
if="exists(event('xxforms:binding'))"> ... </xforms:action>

Note that triggers used to (incorrectly, according to the spec) be
bound to the context node even when you didn't have a ref/bind. So you
will need a fairly recent nightly build for this to work.

Alex
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