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Edit/Create Reporting Obligation for Biocidal products Directive (consolidated) (98/8/EC)
How is it done?
- The form is laid out in one column. I.e. the left menu is not there.
- The REQUEST-method is used to determine whether the form has been submitted. If it is GET, then the form is seen for the first time, and no error messages are displayed. Otherwise the fields are validated in a script that returns an associative array (in Python called dictionary), which contains error messages keyed form field.
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All errors that involve multiple fields are listed above the form.
The rest are listed under the relevant field. Since the form is so large, any other
mechanism would have required the user to scroll up and down to see what is wrong.
If a field has an error, the
class="error"is added to the <input/> element. Additionally a <div> is added after the field with theid="error-field-id"andclass="error-hint". -
The
idandnameattributes are different on the <input/> elements. It was done for historical reasons. This makes it somewhat confusing to program, because when DOM0 is used as indocument.f.elements["FK_SPATIAL_ID"], thenameattribute is used, but when DOM1 is used as indocument.getElementById('client_list');theidattribute is used, except for Internet Explorer, which will return an element found on bothnameandidbygetElementById(). Beware of dragons. - The form is a copy of a real form, and is supposed to warn if you browse away from it without saving. This was turned off for simplicity reasons in the example.
