I’ve got a dev site up here: http://www.sydneypackaging.com.au/index.php/products/details/napkins/

I might have over designed this - but I was hoping I could get Freeform to place nice with Thickbox.

If you click on the Enquire Now graphic it calls up the FreeForm Enquiry Form (http://www.sydneypackaging.com.au/index.php/products/enquiry) The links used to actually call it up so it displays nice in Thickbox is; “http://www.sydneypackaging.com.au/index.php/products/enquiry?height=500&width;=450” class=“thickbox”

Thickbox has the ability to load new content into itself if you continue to use the Thickbox class - so as you can see as a bit of a test I have a link at the top and by clicking on that it loads up a new page within the thickbox.

The problem at the moment, obviously, is if that the submit button will call the EE validation - so I guess my first question is: is there a way to make the Freeform Submit button a HTML link that can be given a class?

I’ve tried using and . I’ve just been focussing on getting the submit to work on this page (v) first and then trying to get it to work with thickbox?

Can I use onSubmit to help me with this? Any other ideas?

I’m going to have LiveValidation on the forum as well (email field already has this) to hopefully I wont even hit the EE validation but I just want to make sure.

I just found the tag name=“nameoftheform”

Using that I can get the page to submit - although it wont work with Thickbox.

i think I might have to go back to a regular form page….

Dane,

I was recently using Thickbox on a site with some other jQuery code I wrote. I needed to invoke Thickbox and open a Thickbox window inside one of my scripts. I downloaded the uncompressed version of Thickbox and looked at the functions inside. Once I got my head around the code I was able to invoke from my own scripts on whatever events I wanted to capture. I’d recommend trying that. I’m afraid I don’t have any code that I can share with you though.

mk

Hi Mitchell thanks for the reply.

I’m revisiting this issue as I’m finishing off the site.

http://www.sydneypackaging.com.au/index.php/products/details/napkins/

Click on the Enquire Now graphic.

I’ve got the freeform module working fine in my thickbox (with livevalidation as well) it’s jut working out the return section.

When I submit the form - the form is submitted fine and the email is sent (and recieved). I’m just trying to get the return path to show up in the thickbox now.

Should I still be looking in the thickbox source to try and make it called from the freeform submit event - or is there a way I can edit the Freeform code so that it can somehow add class=‘thickbox’ to the return parameter (and hopefully that will cause it to load up in the window.

Any pointers would be great.

maybe something to add.

Is it possible to just add

self.parent.tb_remove(); to the freeform_module_form_end

So that after the form is processed it closes the thickbox and the user is redirected to the return URL. I’m not too fussed if I can’t get the return URL to be displayed in the thickbox - I’d just like them to see the form submitted message somehow.

EDIT: forget the last two posts - thats what I get for picking up a project after a couple of weeks break - I had changed one of my template groups and it was working all along it was just displaying a white page after the form was submitted cause the return template didn’t exist.

All working now

Dane,

You definitely want to be operating at the Thickbox level on this. There should be a parameter or a setting you can provide to the window opening routine that tells thickbox to refresh the window instead of the whole page.

mk