I have a form with a closure ui button:
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<form id="login-form">
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<div>
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<input type="text" name="email" />
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<input type="password" name="password" />
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<div id="submit-login" class="goog-css3-button">Sign in</div>
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</div>
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</form>
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I made my button submit my form:
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var myButton = goog.ui.decorate(goog.dom.getElement("submit-login"));
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myButton.setDispatchTransitionEvents(goog.ui.Component.State.ALL, true);
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goog.events.listen(myButton, goog.ui.Component.EventType.ACTION, function(e) {
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goog.dom.getElement("login-form").submit();
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});
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Now, I have the 2 followings issues:
- The form is not submitted when I push “Enter” in one of the fields
- The event
goog.events.EventType.SUBMIT
is not triggered on the form, so my eventual listeners wont be executed
How can I fix this?
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Answer
The hack I found is to:
- append an hidden button tag
- trigger a click on the hidden button on the event ACTION
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var hiddenSubmit = goog.dom.createDom("button",{ type : "submit", "style" : "visibility: hidden; position: absolute; z-index: -10000"});
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goog.dom.appendChild(goog.dom.getElement("submit-login"), hiddenSubmit);
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goog.events.listen(myButton, goog.ui.Component.EventType.ACTION, function(e) {
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hiddenSubmit.click();
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});
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EDIT : As Safari and Chrome does not trigger events on hidden with “Display: none” elements, we must hide the button with other css rules