When i use master pages, i cannot get the form's name to be anything other than "aspnetform". I saw a post (http://forums.asp.net/929349/ShowPost.aspx) stating that you had to override the UniqueID. I tried doing this in the master and form pages, but i dont know if you have to be creating your own form and inherit from htlmform to make this hack work. I tried doing it in my "normal" form and it didnt work for me.

Any suggestions are appreciated,

Chris

You are saying taht you can't put

<form id="whateveridiwant" runat="server">

junk

</form>

in your Master?

If you have form tags in the master, you don't need them in your other pages. Just put the form tags outside your content placeholders in the master and call it good. Works great.

Scott,

Thanks for your reply.

If you put the following form tag into the *<asp:content>* area of a page that's *using* a master page (Beta 2), then it will be rendered as follows:

Original:   <form id="whateveridiwant" runat=server>
Rendered: <form id="aspnetForm" method="post" action="somePage.aspx">

I hope that clarifies the problem,

Chris

if i may just ask

why are you looking to change the id of it?  it's got to be unique no matter what, and its always going to be constant throughout the application... so why change it?

sorry I have not found any workaround on this yet but here is the problem I see in their auto generating code. if you put for an example defaultFocus="myInput" into that form it will generate code to focus to that input using document.getElementById("myInput") and if you have other forms on the page with the same name you have a problem so you really need to add unique IDs to all your inputs in every form to make them unique (visual studios forces them to be unique but not to have to set them).

Also this seems important to me by the fact that someone else comes along and writes a content page and you dont want a conflict on a templated search form or nav form that he may not see at the time. I guess my suggestion is to make the IDs prefixed with the name on the form + the inputs name? Anyhow this seems enough problem to me as I may just handle all my forms myself.

Course the biggest problem here is if you have specific scripts to the name of your form and .net is changing your name on you, then you have to be aware of whats going on and might not be able to use runat="server" and the ispostback features.

Lorddog

one other thing I just thought of. you may want that form object and if they change the names again or whoknows what may happen in the future, so you may want that form object to do an auto loop of all the elements in your form (which may be dynamically built so you dont know the specific names).

well the way to do it is to put a unique hidden input in your form and get that input and then just add a .form call off of it and now you have a reference to your form without knowing the name of your form or which item in the forms array it might be.

Lorddog

Not only does it change the ID of the form in the master it also changes the action that is associated. Can someone confirm this bug and give us a viable solution to this?

<Code>

</code>

Rendered:

 <form name="aspnetForm" method="post" action="default.aspx" id="aspnetForm" ClientID="MainSiteForm">

Not only does it change the ID of the form in the master it also changes the action that is associated. Can someone confirm this bug and give us a viable solution to this?

<Code>

</code>

Rendered:

 <form name="aspnetForm" method="post" action="default.aspx" id="aspnetForm" ClientID="MainSiteForm">

First, you will need to remove your form tag within your content.

Write a javascript file and include it to your content page. You may add it to your page by using

ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptInclude("common", ResolveUrl("~/js/common.js"));

function onSubmit() {
document.forms[0].Id = 'YourId';
}

Then, you will need to use a button or imagebutton (or any elements that support the postbackrul property) 

<asp:ImageButton onClientClick="onSubmit();"  ImageUrl="images/submit.gif" id="submitButton" runat="server" PostBackUrl=http://www.yourdomain.com/form.aspx />

why not just take the runat="server" off the tag and handle the postback the old fashion way, by checking the request.form object?

Lorddog

Hi there... did you ever figure this out?  I'm running into the exact issue.  Any help you can provice would be much appreciated.  Thanks!

I just figured it out... let me know if you are interested in the solution...

well I dont use forms with runat server but I feel it is always better to know what is going on and why so if you can indulge us, pls let us know.

Lorddog

I should note that I'm using isapi_rewrite for url rewriting...

                if (Context.Items["ActionAlreadyWritten"] == null)
                {
                    int loop1, loop2;
                    System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection coll;
                    bool canBreak = false;
                    // Load Header collection into NameValueCollection object.
                    coll = Context.Request.Headers;

                    // Put the names of all keys into a string array.
                    String[] arr1 = coll.AllKeys;
                    for (loop1 = arr1.Length-1; loop1 >= 0; loop1--)
                    {
                        if (arr1[loop1] == "X-Rewrite-URL")
                        {
                            String[] arr2 = coll.GetValues(arr1[loop1]);
                            for (loop2 = 0; loop2 < arr2.Length; loop2++)
                            {
                                value = Context.Server.HtmlEncode(arr2[loop2]);
                                Context.Items["ActionAlreadyWritten"] = true;
                                canBreak = true;
                                break;
                            }
                            if (canBreak)
                                break;
                        }

                    }
                }

public void Page_Load(object s, EventArgs e)
{
    HtmlHead myHead = (HtmlHead)FindControl("Header");
    HtmlLink myLink = new HtmlLink();
    foreach (HtmlControl c in myHead.Controls)
    {
        if (c.GetType() == myLink.GetType())
        {
            myLink = (HtmlLink)c;
            if (myLink.Href.Contains("App_Themes"))
            {
                string href = myLink.Href;
                href = href.Remove(0, href.IndexOf('A', 0));
                myLink.Href = "/" + href;
            }
        }
    }
}

Please could you drop me a note with whatever you figured out about this?

Am pretty stuck at the moment....

Thanks in advance,

Dave

Yes please post your findings.. Thanks

I'm also looking for a way to control the id of the rendered form, for integrating with an older site.  I haven't found anything yet!  However, it sounds like you might benefit from the PostBackUrl attribute of your submit control.  The default submit behavior is to post to the script specified in the form's action attribute.  PostBackUrl allows it to post to whatever other script you specify.

Both methods actually use a client-side javascript method to do the actual form submission.

This topic may also be of interest.

Hope that helps!