When using the newer browsers that support HTML5 (FireFox 4 for example); and a form field has the attribute required=’required’; and the form field is empty/blank; and the submit button is clicked; the browsers detects that the “required” field is empty and does not submit the form; instead browser shows a hint asking the user … Read more
I used this syntax to post a file along with some parameters: curl -v -include –form “key1=value1” –form upload=localfilename URL The file is around 500K in size. First of all, I see content length to be 254 on the transmit side. Later the server response’s content length is 0. Where am I going wrong? Here … Read more
Suppose we’re building an address book application (contrived example) with AngularJS. We have a form for contacts that has inputs for email and phone number, and we want to require one or the other, but not both: We only want the email input to be required if the phone input is empty or invalid, and … Read more
This is driving me nuts, I’m under the gun and can’t afford to spend another whole day on this. I am trying to manually set a control value (‘dept’) within the component, and it’s just not working – even the new value logs to console properly. Here is the FormBuilder Instance: initForm() { this.form = … Read more
Is it possible to apply a css(3) style to a label of a checked radio button? I have the following markup: <input type=”radio” id=”rad” name=”radio”/> <label for=”rad”>A Label</label> What I was hoping is that label:checked { font-weight: bold; } would do something, but alas it does not (as I expected). Is there a selector that … Read more
What’s the difference when using GET or POST method? Which one is more secure? What are (dis)advantages of each of them? (similar question) 14 Answers 14
I have an old web application I have to support (which I did not write). When I fill out a form and submit then check the “Network” tab in Chrome I see “Request Payload” where I would normally see “Form Data”. What is the difference between the two and when would one be sent instead … Read more
I am wondering if anyone can give a “best practices” response to using blank HTML form actions to post back to the current page. There is a post asking what a blank HTML form action does here and some pages like this one suggest it is fine but I’d like to know what people think. … Read more
I am using the Postman Chrome extension for testing a web service. There are three options available for data input. I guess the raw is for sending JSON. What is the difference between the other two, form-data and x-www-form-urlencoded? 5 Answers 5
I’m not asking about full email validation. I just want to know what are allowed characters in user-name and server parts of email address. This may be oversimplified, maybe email adresses can take other forms, but I don’t care. I’m asking about only this simple form: user-name@server (e.g. [email protected]) and allowed characters in both parts. … Read more
