Livesite is self terminating form tags added via a textarea DCT item

Hi, I saw something similar posted here /t5/TeamSite/SitePublisher-changing-form-action/td-p/167264 advising that the type="external" be added to the form tag.

After following that advice (adding the type='external' attribute) the post action isn't output, however the output markup of the form tag is being self terminated.

We have a 'single page app' which has multiple form tags with enclosing form elements. This content is added via a textarea DCT item, in essence an HTML bucket.

This is on Livesite 7.1

The markup entered into the DCR looks like:

<div>
  <form>
      <div>
         <input type="text"/>
         ......... (etc etc)
      </div>
  </form>
</div>

After reading that forum issue above, I added the type="external" attribute but now what I see is the form tag being self terminated. The output markup from Livesite looks something like:

<div>
  <form method="post"/>
      <div>
         <input type="text"/>
         ......... (etc etc)
      </div>
  </form>
</div>

i.e. the opening form tag is terminated, also leaving the ending form tag.

In the DOM our form inputs are therefore no longer children of the form element which is messing up our styling. We're sure we have other form markup on other pages also added via the textarea DCT item, we definitely have other forms being created via components/xslt and haven't seen this before.

Is there a way to stop this behaviour? We could remove the form elements but it'll create more work to fix our CSS and JavaScript

Thanks

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nipper

Are you entering this in a TinyMCE field or a stock text window?

Did you confirm that the DCR has what you typed it?

I would think it is more likely in the DCR rather than LSDS

simplepieman

Hi Andy, no it's not TinyMCE (it's a textarea DCT item) and yes I checked the DCR to make sure it was as expected, which it was.

Thanks

Rick Poulin

Since you're on 7.1, I'd suggest checking the release notes. There was one version of LiveSite where this was a bug with the replacing of the <form> tag, but I don't remember the specifics.

Aside from that, I'd say make sure your HTML within it is all well-formed.. Maybe try simplifying the contents of your form to just a single <input> for now and see whether that works any better.

Ashish_Sangal

HI,

Could you please attach all the files related to this issue. We can analyse them. Also, did you check content_center.log for any error?

simplepieman

The HTML is definitely well formed. I also tried out 7.4 tonight with the markup posted below and it rendered as expected.

I went back to our older 7.1 LSDS with a simple

<form>
   <div>blah</div>
   <input type='text'/>
</form>

And was able to replicate the same issue i.e. the form tag self terminates with an ending form tag left over.

cc: Ashish and your questions re logs, I'll try get the time to look at again tomorrow and post what I find. It's such a ridiculously poor and slow development/release process to test these things it's difficult to get the time (we don't have a local development teamsite setup). But thanks to those who've taken the time to reply.

Ashish_Sangal

Hi,

Could you try below mention code -

<form>
   <div>blah</div>
<input type="text"></input>
</form>

Sometimes, double quotes and closing tag explicitly resolves the issue.

simplepieman

Apologies, I added single quotes in the example code when the actual HTML was using double quotes.

I changed to using an explicitly terminated <input> tag as you suggest and got the same results (also added the type="external' attribute again).

It still renders as a self terminating form tag

Ashish_Sangal

Ok. Did you get anything in content_center.log (for preview) and livesite-runtime.log(for LSDS)

Same issue for me as well. Ashish have you faced such issue? If yes then how did you resolved it?

Ashish_Sangal

Hi KP,

Yes i did face this issue and after explicitly closing the tag resolved the issue.

Jaiiboogie05

srinivas13

Hi Ashish,

We are having same issue form tag getting self closed. we are expliciting closing <form> after form fields, however we can see by view-source after page rendering <form> tag getting self closed.

Please let me know if you have resolved above kind of issue.

Thanks

Srinivas

srinivas13

Hi,

We are using 7.1 and having same issue. <form> tag getting self closed. Is there any livesite patch for this issue.

Thanks

Srinivas

mstradling

I'm reasonably sure 7.1 is well out of support now so your time would be much better spent looking at an upgrade project rather than keeping with 7.1.
I don't know if there was ever an official patch for this bug (and as 7.1 is out of support it probably wouldn't be available any more anyway) but there's just one class you need to reimplement to fix it. You'll need to work out which vendor class it is, decompile and re-implement with your own fix for the bug, then run a build.bat.