Possible to attach INPUT element to multiple forms?

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Is it possible to attach an input element to more than one form? I know HTML5 allows you to specify a form an element belongs to by form's ID. But is it possible to attach it to like multiple ID's?

It seems nice to do all that without any javascript/JQuery, which is the alternative.

I have several forms that do a search, in different ways, and wanted to add a common field to all those forms. The thing is I dont want to redo the whole page to make them all to one form (which I should have done in the first place, but don't want to do that now) — xcorat
– xcorat, Commented Jun 12, 2013 at 9:29

Quentin · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-18 15:46:08Z

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No, a form control can be associated with only one form.

From w3c specification:

If a reassociateable form-associated element has a form attribute specified, then that attribute's value must be the ID of a form element in the element's owner Document.

You can use a single, large form and decide (on the server) which inputs to pay attention to based on which submit button was pressed.

edited Mar 18, 2015 at 15:46

answered Jun 12, 2013 at 8:13

Quentin

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