The browsers are OK with it. However, how the application library parses it may vary. Programs are supposed to group identically named items together. While the HTML specification doesn’t explicitly say this, it is implicitly stated in the documentation on checkboxes: Several checkboxes in a form may share the same control name. Thus, for example, … Read more
Might be useful as well: In some cases, one may find it useful to get the hidden text, which can be retrieved from element’s textContent, innerText or innerHTML attribute, by calling element.attribute(‘attributeName’). element.getAttribute(“textContent”) worked for me. See more details there -> http://yizeng.me/2014/04/08/get-text-from-hidden-elements-using-selenium-webdriver/
Ref hidden_field or hidden_field_tag <% form_for(:request, :url => requests_path) do |f| %> <div class=”actions”> <%= f.hidden_field :some_column %> <%= hidden_field_tag ‘selected’, ‘none’ %> <%= f.submit e %> </div> <% end %> then in controller params[:selected]=”none” params[:request][:some_column] = request.some_column Note when you used <%= f.hidden_field :some_column %> it change to html <input type=”hidden” id=”request_some_column” name=”request[some_column]” value=”#{@request.some_column}” … Read more
I’ve just come across this issue and solved it simply by doing the following: @for(int i = 0; i < Model.ToGroups.Count; i++) { @Html.HiddenFor(model => Model.ToGroups[i]) } By using a for instead of a foreach the model binding will work correctly and pick up all of your hidden values in the list. Seems like the … Read more
You should do: <%= f.hidden_field :service, :value => “test” %> hidden_field expects a hash as a second argument
try this = f.input :title, :as => :hidden, :input_html => { :value => “some value” }
$(‘<input>’).attr(‘type’,’hidden’).appendTo(‘form’); To answer your second question: $(‘<input>’).attr({ type: ‘hidden’, id: ‘foo’, name: ‘bar’ }).appendTo(‘form’);