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# dojo submit

Description

Renders a submit button that can submit a form asynchronously. The submit can have three different types of rendering:

- input: renders as html <input type="submit"...>
- image: renders as html <input type="image"...>
- button: renders as html <button type="submit"...>

Please note that the button type has advantages by adding the possibility to seperate the submitted value from the text shown on the button face, but has issues with Microsoft Internet Explorer at least up to 6.0

There’s a bug in IE6/IE7 which makes impossible to use the target’s attribute with a parent Div, because such Div’s content’s are overwritten with the tag’s loadingText . Resulting in an “undefined” message in the content’s, instead of the result of the request.

One possible alternative is to set showLoadingText=”false” (the default) and set the indicator attribute to an element showing the desired loading text or image (outside the div).

    <img id="loadingImage" src="images/loadingAnimation.gif" style="display:none"/>
    <s:div id="parentDiv">
        <s:form action="actionName">
            <sx:submit  targets="parentDiv" showLoadingText="false" indicator="loadingImage"/>
        </s:form>
    </s:div>

Parameters

#### Dynamic Attributes Allowed: false
#### Name | #### Required | #### Default | #### Evaluated | #### Type | #### Description
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
accesskey | false |  | false | String | Set the html accesskey attribute on rendered html element
afterNotifyTopics | false |  | false | String | Comma delimmited list of topics that will published after the request(if the request succeeds)
ajaxAfterValidation | false | false | false | Boolean | Make an asynchronous request if validation succeeds. Only valid if 'validate' is 'true'
align | false |  | false | String | HTML align attribute.
beforeNotifyTopics | false |  | false | String | Comma delimmited list of topics that will published before the request
cssClass | false |  | false | String | The css class to use for element
cssErrorClass | false |  | false | String | The css error class to use for element
cssErrorStyle | false |  | false | String | The css error style definitions for element to use
cssStyle | false |  | false | String | The css style to use for element
disabled | false |  | false | String | Set the html disabled attribute on rendered html element
errorNotifyTopics | false |  | false | String | Comma delimmited list of topics that will published after the request(if the request fails)
errorPosition | false |  | false | String | Define error position of form element (top|bottom)
errorText | false |  | false | String | The text to display to the user if the is an error fetching the content
executeScripts | false | false | false | Boolean | Javascript code in the fetched content will be executed
formFilter | false |  | false | String | Function name used to filter the fields of the form.
formId | false |  | false | String | Form id whose fields will be serialized and passed as parameters
handler | false |  | false | String | Javascript function name that will make the request
highlightColor | false | none | false | String | Color used to perform a highlight effect on the elements specified in the 'targets' attribute
highlightDuration | false | 1000 | false | String | Duration of highlight effect in milliseconds. Only valid if 'highlightColor' attribute is set
href | false |  | false | String | The URL to call to obtain the content. Note: If used with ajax context, the value must be set as an url tag value.
id | false |  | false | String | The id to use for the element
indicator | false |  | false | String | Set indicator
javascriptTooltip | false | false | false | Boolean | Use JavaScript to generate tooltips
key | false |  | false | String | Set the key (name, value, label) for this particular component
label | false |  | false | String | Label expression used for rendering a element specific label
labelSeparator | false | : | false | String | String that will be appended to the label
labelposition | false |  | false | String | Define label position of form element (top/left)
listenTopics | false |  | false | String | Topic that will trigger the remote call
loadingText | false | Loading... | false | String | Text to be shown while content is being fetched
method | false |  | false | String | Set method attribute.
name | false |  | false | String | The name to set for element
notifyTopics | false |  | false | String | Comma delimmited list of topics that will published before and after the request, and on errors
onblur | false |  | false | String | Set the html onblur attribute on rendered html element
onchange | false |  | false | String | Set the html onchange attribute on rendered html element
onclick | false |  | false | String | Set the html onclick attribute on rendered html element
ondblclick | false |  | false | String | Set the html ondblclick attribute on rendered html element
onfocus | false |  | false | String | Set the html onfocus attribute on rendered html element
onkeydown | false |  | false | String | Set the html onkeydown attribute on rendered html element
onkeypress | false |  | false | String | Set the html onkeypress attribute on rendered html element
onkeyup | false |  | false | String | Set the html onkeyup attribute on rendered html element
onmousedown | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmousedown attribute on rendered html element
onmousemove | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmousemove attribute on rendered html element
onmouseout | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmouseout attribute on rendered html element
onmouseover | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmouseover attribute on rendered html element
onmouseup | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmouseup attribute on rendered html element
onselect | false |  | false | String | Set the html onselect attribute on rendered html element
openTemplate | false |  | false | String | Set template to use for opening the rendered html.
parseContent | false | true | false | Boolean | Parse returned HTML for Dojo widgets
requiredLabel | false | false | false | Boolean | If set to true, the rendered element will indicate that input is required
requiredPosition | false |  | false | String | Define required position of required form element (left|right)
separateScripts | false | true | false | String | Run scripts in a separate scope, unique for each tag
showErrorTransportText | false | true | false | Boolean | Set whether errors will be shown or not
showLoadingText | false | false | false | Boolean | Show loading text on targets
src | false |  | false | String | Supply an image src for image type submit button. Will have no effect for types input and button.
style | false |  | false | String | The css style definitions for element to use - it's an alias of cssStyle attribute.
tabindex | false |  | false | String | Set the html tabindex attribute on rendered html element
targets | false |  | false | String | Comma delimited list of ids of the elements whose content will be updated
template | false |  | false | String | The template (other than default) to use for rendering the element
templateDir | false |  | false | String | The template directory.
title | false |  | false | String | Set the html title attribute on rendered html element
tooltip | false |  | false | String | Set the tooltip of this particular component
tooltipConfig | false |  | false | String | Deprecated. Use individual tooltip configuration attributes instead.
tooltipCssClass | false | StrutsTTClassic | false | String | CSS class applied to JavaScrip tooltips
tooltipDelay | false | Classic | false | String | Delay in milliseconds, before showing JavaScript tooltips
tooltipIconPath | false |  | false | String | Icon path used for image that will have the tooltip
transport | false | XMLHTTPTransport | false | String | Transport used by Dojo to make the request
type | false | input | false | String | The type of submit to use. Valid values are input, button and image.
validate | false | false | false | Boolean | Perform Ajax validation. 'ajaxValidation' interceptor must be applied to action
value | false |  | false | String | Preset the value of input element.

Examples

     <sx:submit value="%{'Submit'}" />

Render an image submit:

     <sx:submit type="image" value="%{'Submit'}" label="Submit the form" src="submit.gif"/>

Render a button submit:

     <sx:submit type="button" value="%{'Submit'}" label="Submit the form"/>

Update target content with html returned from an action:

     <div id="div1">Div 1</div>
     <s:url id="ajaxTest" value="/AjaxTest.action"/>

     <sx:submit id="link1" href="%{ajaxTest}" target="div1" />

Submit form(inside the form):

     <s:form id="form" action="AjaxTest">
          <input type="textbox" name="data">
          <sx:submit />
     </s:form>

Submit form(outside the form):

     <s:form id="form" action="AjaxTest">
          <input type="textbox" name="data">
     </s:form>

     <sx:submit formId="form" />

Using beforeNotifyTopics:

     <script type="text/javascript">
     dojo.event.topic.subscribe("/before", function(event, widget){
         alert('inside a topic event. before request');
         //event: set event.cancel = true, to cancel request
         //widget: widget that published the topic
     });
     </script>

     <sx:submit beforeNotifyTopics="/before" />

Using afterNotifyTopics and highlight target:

     <script type="text/javascript">
     dojo.event.topic.subscribe("/after", function(data, request, widget){
         alert('inside a topic event. after request');
         //data : text returned from request(the html)
         //request: XMLHttpRequest object
         //widget: widget that published the topic
     });
     </script>

     <sx:submit afterNotifyTopics="/after" highlightColor="red" href="%{#ajaxTest}" />

Using errorNotifyTopics and indicator:

     <script type="text/javascript">
     dojo.event.topic.subscribe("/error", function(error, request, widget){
         alert('inside a topic event. on error');
         //error : error object (error.message has the error message)
         //request: XMLHttpRequest object
         //widget: widget that published the topic
     });
     </script>

     <img id="ind1" src="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/images/indicator.gif" style="display:none"/>
     <sx:submit errorNotifyTopics="/error" indicator="ind1" href="%{#ajaxTest}" />