Item15188: Form HTML render broken ?

• not sure if it's a bug or if the bug is between the seat and the keyboard
• but I've simple copy paste the exemple provided by the docs DataForms (DataForms#Using_a_web_form_to_create_a_topic_and_pass_data)
• into FormHTMLTest
  • even everythings is not defined, I was expected to have at least the form with the submit button or the input type changed from the docs
  • using literal tag doesn't change anythings ; "<" seems to break somethings
• I post this issue, following an identical behavior on a personnal 2.1.6 installation
• browser inspector show a render of the form not as defined

•  <form name="newtopic" action=" bin="" save="" sandbox="" " method="post" onsubmit="StrikeOne.submit(this)"><input type="hidden" name="validation_key" value="?ed0d87bede70f62ee864c03684a7d26f">&nbsp;
  <input type="hidden" name="formtemplate" value="simpleform" >&nbsp;
  <input type="hidden" name="topic" value="knowledgetopicautoinc00001" >&nbsp;
  <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="faqwhatiswikiwiki" >&nbsp;
  <input type="hidden" name="category" value="one" >&nbsp;
  <input name="category" value="two" >&nbsp;
  <input type="submit" class="foswikisubmit" value="create topic" >&nbsp;
  

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Seems to be an character encoding problem caused by copy&paste.

-- MichaelDaum - 18 Apr 2023

Indeed, the quotes " copy paste from the help topic seems to be the right quote. So changing all copy pasted quotes (") by a keyboard typed quotes (") works well and to avoid any error, you can use the ' instead of " and then be sure all the wrong quotes (") had been replace.

-- GuilainCabannes - 05 May 2023

in that way, the exemple will be now

<form name='newtopic' action='%SCRIPTURLPATH{save}%/Sandbox/' method='post'> 
<input type='hidden' name='formtemplate' value='SimpleForm' >  </input>
<input type='hidden' name='topic' value='KnowledgeTopicAUTOINC00001' >  </input>
<input type='hidden' name='Subject' value='FAQWhatIsWikiWiki' >  </input>
<input type='hidden' name='Category' value='One' >  </input>
<input type='hidden' name='Category' value='Two' >   </input>
<input type='submit' class='foswikiSubmit' value='Create topic' >  </input>
</form> 

and a lovely button will be visible ! Thanks MichaelDaum

-- GuilainCabannes - 05 May 2023

Latest questions for going further :

• may the wrong quotes are comming the source file of the help topic ?
• may the wrong quotes are generated by the foswiki engine (or any of the dependencies) ?
• may the wrong quotes are generated by the browser ? (here Chrome and Firefox had been tested, same result)
• may the wrong quotes are coming from the clipboard ? (here test had been done under linux & windows)

To be continued...

-- GuilainCabannes - 05 May 2023

ok, it's perhaps little bit more tricky, on the test topic page : FormHTMLTest i've just copy paste again the form from the topic help and right now works well without any change

• new test runs :
  • create virgin topic page
  • copy/paste form
  • get issue (no button)
  • change the quote " by ' or change the wrong quote " by the right quote "
  • see the button
  • copy/paste again the form and works well without changing anything

-- GuilainCabannes - 05 May 2023

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