Please make sure you have read the Tag Syntax document and understand how tag attribute syntax works.

Description

Renders HTML an input form.

The remote form allows the form to be submitted without the page being refreshed. The results from the form can be inserted into any HTML element on the page.

NOTE:

The order / logic in determining the posting url of the generated HTML form is as follows:-

  1. If the action attribute is not specified, then the current request will be used to determine the posting url
  2. If the action is given, WebWork will try to obtain an ActionConfig. This will be successfull if the action attribute is a valid action alias defined xwork.xml.
  3. If the action is given and is not an action alias defined in xwork.xml WebWork will used the action attribute as if it is the posting url, separting the namespace from it and using UrlHelper to generate the final url.

Parameters

Name

Required

Default

Type

Description

onsubmit false   Object/String HTML onsubmit attribute
action false current action Object/String Set action nane to submit to, without .action suffix
target false   Object/String HTML form target attribute
enctype false   Object/String HTML form enctype attribute
method false   Object/String HTML form method attribute
namespace false current namespace Object/String namespace for action to submit to
validate false false Boolean Whether client side/remote validation should be performed. Only useful with theme xhtml/ajax
portletMode false   Object/String The portlet mode to display after the form submit
windowState false   Object/String The window state to display after the form submit
acceptcharset false   Object/String The accepted charsets for this form. The values may be comma or blank delimited.
openTemplate false   Object/String Set template to use for opening the rendered html.
theme false   Object/String The theme (other than default) to use for rendering the element
templateDir false   Object/String The template directory (other than default) to used to find the themes and hence the template.
template false   Object/String The template (other than default) to use for rendering the element
cssClass false   Object/String The css class to use for element
cssStyle false   Object/String The css style definitions for element ro use
title false   Object/String Set the html title attribute on rendered html element
disabled false   Object/String Set the html disabled attribute on rendered html element
label false   Object/String Label expression used for rendering a element specific label
labelPosition false left Object/String deprecated.
labelposition false   Object/String define label position of form element (top/left)
requiredposition false   Object/String define required position of required form element (left|right)
name false   Object/String The name to set for element
required false false Boolean If set to true, the rendered element will indicate that input is required
tabindex false   Object/String Set the html tabindex attribute on rendered html element
value false   Object/String Preset the value of input element.
onclick false   Object/String Set the html onclick attribute on rendered html element
ondblclick false   Object/String Set the html ondblclick attribute on rendered html element
onmousedown false   Object/String Set the html onmousedown attribute on rendered html element
onmouseup false   Object/String Set the html onmouseup attribute on rendered html element
onmouseover false   Object/String Set the html onmouseover attribute on rendered html element
onmousemove false   Object/String Set the html onmousemove attribute on rendered html element
onmouseout false   Object/String Set the html onmouseout attribute on rendered html element
onfocus false   Object/String Set the html onfocus attribute on rendered html element
onblur false   Object/String Set the html onblur attribute on rendered html element
onkeypress false   Object/String Set the html onkeypress attribute on rendered html element
onkeydown false   Object/String Set the html onkeydown attribute on rendered html element
onkeyup false   Object/String Set the html onkeyup attribute on rendered html element
onselect false   Object/String Set the html onselect attribute on rendered html element
onchange false   Object/String Set the html onchange attribute on rendered html element
accesskey false   Object/String Set the html accesskey attribute on rendered html ekement
tooltip false String Set the tooltip of this particular component
tooltipConfig false String Set the tooltip configuration
id false   Object/String id for referencing element. For UI and form tags it will be used as HTML id attribute

Examples

<ww:form ... />

Validation

There are two flavours Client Side Validation, depening on the theme you are using (xhtml, ajax, etc). If you are using the xhtml theme or css_xhtml theme, pure client side validation will be used. If you are using the ajax theme, a special AJAX-based validation will take place. Read the Client Side Validation docs for more information.