Form inside a form

Rails
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Hi

 I have a main form like below

<%= start_form_tag ({:action => ‘update_sd_ticket’, :method =>
‘post’,:id =>@sd_ticket.id})%>

SD Ticket <%=h @sd_ticket.number %>
<%= render :partial=>'service_desk_part/edit_sd_details' %>
<%= render :partial => 'service_desk_part/view_sd_resolution_details' %>

<%= end_form_tag %>

AND INSIDE THE PARTIAL FILE view_sd_resolution_details (which is
completely inside a div)a link_to_remote is there which replaces this
div and the file define_sd_resolution_ui is called …(This is working)
and in that the following form is there.

<%= form_remote_tag :url => { :action => ‘sd_resolution_save’,
:id => @sd_ticket.id,
:sd_resolution_id=>@sd_resolution_id, :page => params[:page]},
:class => ‘itilform’%>

Resolution <%= text_area("sd_resolution", "resolution", "cols" => 80, "rows" => 5) %> <%= end_form_tag>

BUT THIS FORM ACTION DOES NOT WORK…HOW CAN I OVERCOME THIS?

Sijo

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taken from w3c (HTML 3.2 Reference Specification):

“FORM fill-out forms
Requires start and end tags. This element is used to define a
fill-out form for processing by HTTP servers. The attributes are ACTION,
METHOD and ENCTYPE. Form elements can’t be nested.”

→ you can’t put a tag inside a ancestor tag , and that
is pretty much what you are doing. you have to seperate the two.

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Sijo:

This is the very same issue that you posted earlier:
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/86adead2460b6ffe/cf2b5a0a344c07a5?lnk=gst&q=Sijo+form+partial#cf2b5a0a344c07a5

I don’t want to discourage you from using Rails, but please do slow
down a bit and study what you are working with. You are posting a lot
of questions and many of the answers share the same or similar root
causes.

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Hi Sijo,

Watch the following Railscasts that might give you ideas on how to
solve your problem:

Episode 16: Virtual Attributes
Complex Forms Part 1
Complex Forms Part 2
Complex Forms Part 3

Another trick is to have multiple forms but with submit buttons
targeting a specific form. i.e.

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    • Hope this was of help…

    Cheers,

    Maruis Marais

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    Hi
    Thanks for your help

    Sijo

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    Handle the issue of subforms you need to read up on the API regarding
    the fields_for method. See ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper.