Klaus,
As Dan pointed out, his Field plugin is very adept at getting, setting and otherwise manipulating data for field elements and Dan is adding new capabilities regularly. The Form plugin is mostly geared at providing ajax capabilities for the submit process. It also provides methods for getting and serializing field values, but there is no complementary setting or deserialization capabilities at this time. Mike On 7/17/07, Dan G. Switzer, II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Using my Field plug-in (http://jquery.com/plugins/project/field) you >could >> do: >> >> $("#id_cliente").setValue("2"); >> >> The big benefit to using my Field plug-in is that you can change the form >> field from a select box to a checkbox or radio element and you would not >> have to refactor code that grabs/sets the value of the field. >> >> -Dan > >Dan, that truly is an advantage. But I was of the opinion, that val() >works with selects and radios as well, thus the refactoring possibility >exists for core jQuery as well (of course I don't want people to stay >away from your plugin by saying that). I don't believe val() is 100% cross-browser compatible for select elements. val: function( val ) { return val == undefined ? ( this.length ? this[0].value : null ) : this.attr( "value", val ); }, The code only works if the element returns a "value" attribute. This might work in most modern browsers for a select-one element, I'm not sure what the behavior is for a select-multi element. Also, my getValue()/setValue() methods work with checkbox and radio elements (well, every field element--the only exception being the setValue() on read-only elements.) >Another question (Mike, Dan?). What are the differences between form and >field plugin? The Field plug-in is basically a companion/stand-alone to the Form plug-in. You don't need Mike's Form plug-in, but it works great in conjunction with Mike's code. My plug-in is geared towards reading and manipulating the form fields themselves. Methods such as the formHash() make it really easy to populate a form based upon a JSON packet. It's also the first jQuery plug-in that allowed both getting and setting the value for all form field elements. I'm also working on adding addition useful form-based UI methods. I just recently added limitSelection() (allows you to limit the number of checkbox/select elements that can be selected) and createCheckboxRange() (allows you to [SHIFT]+click to highlight a range of checkbox elements.) -Dan
