Modal Dialog and Form Binding Issues

[jamesclinton1]

Please advise?

(Facelets,MyFaces, Tomahawk, A4j, Richfaces and Spring Webflow)

I have a page containing a h:form, and a link to open a modal dialog also containing a h:form (not nested ofcourse).

The modal form commandButton when clicked doesn't take any action. It's as if only 1 form exists or has control. If I point the button in f2 to click a button in f1 it submits..but binds f1 data ofcourse.

I have tried using a4j:support on a selectOneMenu in f2, which does submit, but the values are null....i suspect its submitting f1.

<h:form id="f1">
 ... Binds ok
</h:form>

<h:form id="f2">
 <rich:modalPanel ..>
 .
 .
 <h:inputText value="#{bean.string}"/>
 <h:commandButton value="Submit" action="#{bean.testAction}"/>
 </rich:modalPanel
</h:form>

Is this situation possible?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

one of the limitations stated in our docs is :

Modal Panel should not be inside the form, but should provide it's own form inside for submission.

[jamesclinton1]

Thank you that resolved my issue.

Dunno how I missed this:

I.e. nested forms are not allowed. Those requirements are applied because of the bug in earlier Internet Explorer versions, as the dialog is moved to the top of the browser DOM tree just after it is rendered.

[fmarwede]

Ilya, you said:

Modal Panel should not be inside the form, but should provide it's own form inside for submission.

And Sergey said (http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=132074):

1. model panel must have its own form
2. modal panel should have the form outside

You both agree about "modal panels must have its own form" but has this form to be inside or outside the modal panel?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

it's own form means inside ;)