[Zope-dev] Form action has no effect

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:54:16 -0400

Probably because of BASE tag insertion magic.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ross Boylan" <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>
To: "Dieter Maurer" <dieter@handshake.de>
Cc: "Ross Boylan" <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>; <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Form action has no effect

> I added <head> and <body> parts to the page and now it works.  I saw
> something in the developers' guide that one needs a <head> for the
> action URLs to resolve properly.
>
>
> It's a bit weird, since I tried the action with
> action="<dtml-var absolute_url>/doCompare"
> and it didn't help (until adding the <head>).
>
> It's also weird because it was working before.
>
> But at least it's working now
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:32:16PM +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> > Ross Boylan wrote at 2003-4-21 17:14 -0800:
> >  > I had a Zope product that was working OK about a year ago.  Now
it's
> >  > not.  It seems the form action is not having any effect when I
click on the
> >  > button in the interface.  As far as I can tell, the action is
never called.
> >
> > Whether or not the action is activated is not a Zope but a browser
> > issue (provided the form is rendered correctly).
> >
> > You might use a TCP logger (e.g. Shane's "tcpwatch") to find
> > out what goes on between your browser and Zope.
> >
> >
> > Dieter
>
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