[development] Drupal way of doing onchange

[Randy Fay]

As long as you don't change form elements, you can use traditional
javascript/jquery.  So it would be OK to hide/show or disable/enable the CVV
field in your example.

If you change them (for example, by adding in a CVV field, or by changing
the options in a select) then form validation will fail. That's the case
where you're forced into AJAX(D7)/AHAH.

If you find you need to do AHAH, there are working examples in the Examples
module (http://drupal.org/project/examples), and there is a tutorial at
http://randyfay.com/ahah, which also has references to other information.

-Randy

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Jeff Greenberg <jeff at ayendesigns.com>wrote:

> Haven't delved into AHAH yet, this might force the issue.
>
>
> Using an easy (=less typing) example. A credit card form. When the credit
> card type is selected from a select, the selection needs to fire a
> javascript function that will disable fields that don't apply to that card
> type (such as CVV).
>
>
> Normally, I would have an onchange event for the select, and noticed that
> in the form api, while there is an attribute section to add miscellaneous
> attributes, the doc doesn't mention events as examples. And if putting an
> event there is legitimate, there isn't a mention of how to include the
> responding js function in the form.
>
>
> If AHAH is the way I'm supposed to handle this, I'd appreciate being
> pointed to a good similar example, because I'm a bit unclear from the AHAH
> entries in the form reference docs, for example, how to relate the
> myhandler/js entry to a physical location of the function, and how the
> function gets there.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>


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