Article:		A Simpler Ajax Path
Subject:		Only uses the first form on a page
Date:		2005-06-15 05:45:12
From:		maYO
In your example the function formData2QueryString will always and only take the contents from the very first form on a page. Changing two lines in that function would make it more modular: function formData2QueryString(formName) { var docForm = document.forms[formName]; . . . So the only thing left to do is call that function and passing it the name of the form as argument.

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• Only uses the first form on a page
  2005-06-15 20:54:11  fleegix [Reply | View]
  
  
  Oops, sorry -- looks like the downloadable version has a slightly older version of the function. The version used as the example in the article is more up-to-date one where the form reference is passed into the function as a variable.
  
  That lets you use the function with forms in other frames or windows, like this:
  
  

  var openerForm = opener.document.forms['searchForm'];
  
  var strPostData = formData2QueryString(openerForm);
  
  

  
  
  I'll update the code in the downloadable file. Thanks for catching that.