Sitefinity ASP.NET CMS - Content Management System

 

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Article relates to	all Sitefinity versions
Created by	Rebecca, Telerik

PROBLEM
When you edit a page with the RadEditor and insert a FORM, you are not able to use any of Sitefinity buttons:

• you edit a layout and save it, but the [Confirm Changes] button does not do anything when clicked.
• you click the [Save Changes] button, but the toolbar does not change, i.e. there is no [Confirm Changes] button.
• you cannot submit layout changes for publishing and therefore cannot update the live site.

DESCRIPTION
In ASP.NET, only one <form> tag is allowed per page and Sitefinity already uses one <form> tag for each page. If you look at the HTML source, you will notice that Sitefinity is wrapping the entire page in a <form> HTML element.
When one inserts a control with another <form> tag in it, ASP.NET (and as a result Sitefinity) breaks.

SOLUTION
Remove the <form> tag from the custom form and use ASP.NET User Controls instead.

Another workaround is to set the form in <IFRAME> and set the TARGET attribute of the form to _parent.

We also recommend inserting the HTML related to the FORM in an .ASCX file and then to upload it to the site Do not use the RadEditor control to do this.