After DOM manipulation, form fields won't post...
This is an issue I first ran into several years ago, but I've recently helped two different people who had the same problem and thought it was worthy of blogging.
If you run into a situation where form fields are not getting posted to the server after the DOM has been manipulated, check to make sure the <form/> element is in a valid location. If the <form/> tag resides as a direct child of either a <table/> or <tr/> element, then you will encounter problems posting the form once a child element of the <form/> element has been dynamically modified.
While this behavior does not occur in IE, it does happen in other modern browsers—such as Firefox and some WebKit-based browsers.
Any of the following will break your form post submission:
<table><form><tr> .... </tr></form></table>
<table><tr><form> .... </form></tr></table>
<table><tbody><form> ... </form></tbody></table>
To correct the problem, just place the <form/> tag outside of the <table/> tag:
<form><table><tr> ... </tr></table></form>
This type of markup usually appears on older sites, where I believe the intent of putting the <form/> tag inside the <table/> was to prevent any visual margins from being seen. Obviously, it's easy to remove the margins using CSS and this type of invalid markup can only come back to haunt you.
NOTE: You can do <table><tr><td><form> .... </form></td></tr></table>. That's perfectly valid HTML. You just need to make sure the <form/> tag is placed somewhere were visible text is allowed.
Refreshing Eclipse Workspace using ANT
I was looking for a way to programmatically refresh some specific folders in my workspace anytime I ran my ANT script. Eclipse provides several ant tasks that you can use for various purposes, once of which is the <eclipse.refreshLocal /> tag:
<eclipse.refreshLocal resource="MyProject/MyFolder" depth="infinite"/>
- resource is a resource path relative to the workspace
- depth can be one of the following: zero, one or infinite
However, when I first tried adding this task to my ANT script, I was getting an error that looked like:
BUILD FAILED
c:\path\folder\build.xml:85: Problem: failed to create task or type eclipse.refreshLocal
Cause: The name is undefined.
Action: Check the spelling.
Needless to say, I was pretty confused. So after some brief research, it turns out I accidentally running ANT outside of the Eclipse JRE. To fix this, go open up the External Tools Dialog (Run > External Tools > Open External Tools Dialog...) and make sure the JRE tab is set to "Run in the same JRE as workspace."
I'm not sure how that setting got changed, but I'm glad I found the fix. This also has sped up the first time execution of my ANT scripts.
Akeem Havens, 14 year old quadriplegic, gets signed as a Steeler
Here's a video segment about Akeem Havens, a 14 year old quadriplegic who got his wish to play video games with Ben Roethlisberger. The Steelers FO office signed Akeem to a 1 day contract and he even got to practice with the Steelers team.