In fact, wrapping in the div with display:none may not be necessary anyway -- I think that itself was probably just a hack to deal with very old browsers in which hidden fields took up some space in the display.
Anthony On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 10:37:51 AM UTC-5, Anthony wrote: > > Are you using an old browser? I don't think this is a problem in modern > browsers. > > Anthony > > On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 12:32:03 AM UTC-5, ..mg.. wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> I'm trying to run a simple web2py (2.13.4-stable) form from links >> (2.8/2.12), >> and I've found a strange bug. >> >> web2py's form.accepts is failing because the formkey and formname fields >> aren't being submitted. links isn't submitting those fields because >> web2py is wrapping them in a <div style="display:none;">. >> >> Replacing my line 2183 in gluon/html.py, in FORM.hidden_fields: >> >> return DIV(c, _style="display:none;") >> >> with >> >> return DIV(c) >> >> fixes the problem for me. >> >> I'm wondering: what's the reason behind the "display: none;" there? I >> can understand the browser not submitting them on security concerns, but >> I'm ignorant of what the specs say about this corner case. >> >> Best, >> >> -mg >> >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
