hi. i have a standard html form with quite a few elements
(selects, radio buttons, input fields, text areas etc)
some users will need the ability to supply additional data
but i only want the fields for this additional data to appear upon
request (to keep the form clean looking for the majority of users)
i want to make it when users click on an "add more detail"
button then the screen goes 'greyed out' and a new form appears
roughly 350px x 350px centred on their screens. ive seen this done
quite a lot recently and was just about to google javascript
tutorials to get started, then it occured to me i may be able to
utilise cf8's ajax tags to achieve this (which would be handy as i
really struggle with anything other than v basic javascript)
my requirements are:
1 button (or link) in my standard form that launches the
'more detail' form in a ?layer? over the top of the existing
content
2 when this happens the existing content is 'greyed out'
preventing uses from interracting with it until they either
complete this new form (or click the close button in that new form)
3 this form is to contain 2 text inputs and a submit button
4 i want to pass the data from this form back to the original
form when it is submitted (temporarily storing the data in hidden
fields within the original form) and will then ultimately pass this
back to the server when the original form is submitted
does anyone know if cfajax can help me with this (i dont need
the asynchronous server interaction stuff ajax offers only the
javascript to make my form pop up etc)
if not does anyone know what this behaviour is commonly
termed so i can google for it
thanks very much indeed for any help
cheers
Nick
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