Question

i am trying to submit a hidden form that contain the per_page and current_page details as a param values for paginating the search results , but the same view page contain the search form also . but while submitting the hidden form by using .submit() method in AJAX for paginating the search results i am getting conflicts between these 2 forms . could any one please tell what we need to care about while using 2 forms in one view page in Rails .

Answer 1

No you can have n number of forms, but they should not be nested.

your html should be liek foloowing

<form id="form_1">
</form>
<form id="form_2">
</form>

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<form id="form_n">
</form>

and to submit form_1 using jquery use .submit method of jquery as following

$('#form_1').submit()