[Html-widget] default action is '/' ??

[Jason Kohles]

On 8/30/06, John Napiorkowski <jjn1056 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The documentation specifies that the default action to a from is nothing to make it easier to create self referring forms.  However everything I do causes an action to be set to "/" in my generated forms.  Is this just a documentation error and if so what are people doing to make self referring forms?  I'm going crazy trying to deal with this :)
>
I don't see where in the documentation that says this, but the code
contains (in HTML::Widget::process):

    # Some sane defaults
    if ( $self->container eq 'form' ) {
        $self->attributes->{action} ||= '/';
        $self->attributes->{method} ||= 'post';
    }

Which would seem to imply that you won't get that behaviour if your
elements are in a fieldset.  Although personally I would argue with
whoever wrote that code that setting / as the default action hardly
qualifies as sane.  :)

-- 
Jason Kohles
email at jasonkohles.com - http://www.jasonkohles.com/
"A witty saying proves nothing."  -- Voltaire