I have a module with a form.

<form id="jobform" name="jobform" action="">

I am trying to use prototype.js to serialize the form fields but it's not working. I suspect there is a problem with having my form buried within the default.aspx form. So how can I get a form *name* that I can use?

thanks

Nick

I did take a look at the feedback module but it did not answer my question. I wanted to share with you what my problem is and how I solved it. It ended up being pretty simple.

I'm porting a complex .net application to dotnetnuke. It's complex because it uses a lot of client side javascript and ajax. I am not using the microsoft ajax library. When I wrote the application 2 years ago, I was using prototype.js. The microsoft library was not able to do drag and drop properly. If you have 2 <div>s and they both have scrollbars, the microsoft library was not able to properly track the position of the element as it moved from one scrollable <div> to the other. Matter of fact, 2 years ago, *no* javascript libraries that I found correctly handled this problem so I had to write my own.

Since then, the problem has been solved and I found that Yahoo's YUI library to be the best and most robust open-source javascript library available. So I have chosen that as my front end development environment. The past week of getting YUI to work with DotNetNuke has been quite educational... But I decided I needed to go through the pain to create the product I'm working on. The drag and drop module is working great.

The problem I had yesterday was working with an iCalendar algorithm that I had written. It relied heavily on statements such as this:

document.theform.duration[1].checked = true;

As you can see, I needed the document's form to get to things like radio button collections, etc. The line of code above was what I had written 2 years ago. As I was studying DotNetNuke, I finally found that a global variable was created for the form:

var theform = document.forms['form'];
if (!theform) {
    theform = document.form;
}

this is from default.aspx. Its very similar to what I had written 2 years ago. When I changed all my code to this:

theform.duration[1].checked = true;

everything just started working. That was a serious relief. This particular module has thousands of lines of javascript and I seriously was having major butterflies in my stomach trying to get this to work...

I'm really happy that I chose

a) DotNetNuke and
b) Yahoo YUI

the combination of the 2 is making for a robust website with a great consistent look.

I hope this long post helps someone.
Nick

I apologize, there are a few simple substitution rules applied to prevent injections.