Calling action with two nested forms

[Mike Payton]

Can we have two nested froms calling the same action?

Is it possible ?

[Bear Bibeault]

No. That would not be valid HTML markup.

[Mike Payton]

What possible option I can have to obtain this

[Bear Bibeault]

That very much depends on what you are trying to accomplish. What's your actual goal?

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

and Welcome to JavaRanch Mike Payton :)

[Mike Payton]

I have an if condition, Based on that I need to generate a popup for printing some PDFs.

Here is the code

<HTML:form action="action.do" >
<% if(condition()) {%>
<span>
<input type="button" onclick="javascript:cancel1()" property="" Class = "bSwan" tabindex="7" value="Cancel" />
<input type="button" id="submit" property="" Class = "bSwan" tabindex="7" value="save" />
<div id="pay_dialog" title="Dialog Title">

<form id="auth_form">
<input type="button" value="Print Authorization Form" id="printpdf" property="" Class = "bSwan" tabindex="7" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" id="submit_form" property="" Class = "bSwan" tabindex="7" />
</form>
</div>
</span>
<%}else{%>
<span>
<input type="button" onclick="javascript:cancel1()" property="" Class = "bSwan" tabindex="7" value="Cancel" />


<html:submit property="" styleClass = "bSwan" onclick="" tabindex="7">
<bean:message key="global.button.Save" />
</html:submit>
</span>
<% } %>

</HTML:form>


Can I have <form id="auth_form" action="action.do"> ?

I mean in both the condition I need the same value on form to be submitted to the same action.

[Bear Bibeault]

AH, you are using Struts. I'll move this over to he Struts forum.

You can have as many forms as you want, you just cannot nest them.

[Mike Payton]

So I should take out the inside form and can call the same action ?

[Bear Bibeault]

Any form can have any action. The contents of the form will be submitted to the form's action. It doesn't matter if multiple forms have the same action; they are independent submissions.

[Mike Payton]

Thank you.Bear Bibeault

[Bear Bibeault]