Document that buttons with the same #value need a unique #name for the form API to distinguish them, or change the form API to assign unique #names automatically

// Some input fields ... $form['button1'] = array( '#type' => 'button', '#value' => t('Add Another'), ); // Some more input fields ... $form['button2'] = array( '#type' => 'button', '#value' => t('Add Another'), );

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solideogloria
Knowing this helped me fix a bug. It'd be incredibly helpful to document this.

Comment 9 months ago →

🇺🇸United States paulmckibben Atlanta, GA

This was a root cause for an ajax issue I was experiencing, due to two different forms appearing on the same page. On one of the forms, ajax submit failed to get a callback method because the formState->getTriggeringElement() returned NULL.

Once I assigned a unique #name to the submit button for the form that was failing to submit using ajax, the problem was fixed.

Before:

      $form['filter-container']['top-row']['submit'] = [
        '#type' => 'submit',
        '#value' => $this->t('Submit'),
        '#id' => 'license-filter-submit',
        '#ajax' => [
          'callback' => '::ajaxUpdateLicenseResults',
          'wrapper' => 'license-results-container',
          'progress' => [
            'type' => 'fullscreen',
          ],
        ],
      ];

After:

      $form['filter-container']['top-row']['submit'] = [
        '#type' => 'submit',
        '#value' => $this->t('Submit'),
        '#id' => 'license-filter-submit',
        '#name' => 'license-filter-submit',
        '#ajax' => [
          'callback' => '::ajaxUpdateLicenseResults',
          'wrapper' => 'license-results-container',
          'progress' => [
            'type' => 'fullscreen',
          ],
        ],
      ];

Adding a unique '#name' fixed the triggeringElement issue.

Adding this here in hopes that anyone else experiencing this particular use case will find it.

Comment 9 months ago →
solideogloria
The issue summary was updated/improved in #13 but the tag wasn't removed after.
Comment 9 months ago →
solideogloria