forms in components

Ok I have another stupid question. I am trying to create a simple component that contains a form.

[html]

[/html]

However when I preview this component the opening form tag is removed. Smiley Sad

I think 'form' may be a reserved word. In which case how do I get around this. Slapping a CDATA around it doesn't work.

Thanks
Alex

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Shazzer

This one is annoying. To get around it, you can add type="external" to your form tag. This will make LiveSite ignore it and leave it intact - however, type="external" will cause a validation error in your page. (it's not a proper attribute of "form")

There's lots of ways to get around this though - I simply added a check to our workflow to replace the type=" external" form tags with regular bog-standard form tags, which did the trick.

flivauda

Shazzer is right, you must add Type="External" to the form if you don't want LiveSite to handle the processing of the form.

In LS 3.0 the Type attribute will be removed at rendering time so that you're output will still correctly validate.