Question

In my next application, I want to dynamically load CActiveForms into other CActiveForms with AJAX.

Therefore, I create different form views like this:

$form = $this->beginWidget('CActiveForm', [...]

But it always renders the tag. This results in nested forms:

<form id="form1">
    <form id="form2">
    </form>
</form>

How do i prevent the CActiveForm from rendering the form tag for form2?

Answer 1

I don’t think it’s possible natively with CActiveForms. You could however create your own widget which inherits from it. Then you can override the init() and run() methods, and take out the echo CHtml::endForm(); on line 340 and echo CHtml::beginForm on line 328.

Your results may be mixed though, a lot of Javascript and styling etc. relying on having a parent form with some settings etc.