Extension talk:Page Forms

Form input autofocus attribute
Is there a way to disable the 'autofocus' attribute from the text form inputs without manually hacking it out of the source code? I have issues on long forms where the autofocus shifts the page to the bottom of the form as soon as it is loaded because of that attribute (on pages using the #forminput parser functions). Removing it after the fact with jQuery doesn't work because by the time the jQuery call kicks in, the page has already been shifted down from the autofocus. --Lalquier (talk) 14:35, 4 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Nevermind - Answering my own question. I reviewed the list of parameters for #forminput and found I missed the 'noautofocus' parameter. --Lalquier (talk) 14:42, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Pipes are not working with wikitable format
I get the following error when using a simple wikitable in a textarea box. Actual error message is "|" is not allowed, except within or ...

I see this was reported previously here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Page_Forms/Archive_January_to_March_2016#Pipes_are_not_allowed

But it seems to be not working for us now. Version used: PageForms 4.0.2 (f0816ba) 22:12, 6 January 2017

MediaWiki	1.28.0 PHP	5.5.9-1ubuntu4.20 (apache2handler) MySQL	5.5.53-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

--Nischayn22 (talk) 07:29, 7 April 2017 (UTC)


 * A naked pipe will be interpreted as the end of the parameter you are trying to set with your field. Did you try transcluding the pipes with | ? - Lbillett (talk) 09:30, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Nested Forms with Multiple Instances
I'd like to have a form that allows multiple instances and has an optional sub-form that can go with each instance. For example, you may have a main form (form "Item"), which can have an "Item Detail" sub-form. And you can have multiple "Item" instances, each with its own sub-form. Is this possible? I think this is what the partial forms are for, but I cannot figure out how to use it. Thanks in advance. Gstupp (talk) 20:12, 9 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Are you asking about having a form that only edits one instance of a multiple-instance template? If so, unfortunately that's not possible. Yaron Koren (talk) 22:41, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Autocomplete not working
Can you think why autocomplete isn't working with the following?

I am sure it used to work, but I can't think what's changed. Thanks. Jonathan3 (talk) 14:15, 28 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Someone else said this was a problem too, but I can't reproduce it. Do you see any JavaScript error message in the browser console? Yaron Koren (talk) 17:35, 28 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Yes. This is from Firefox:

TypeError: this.source is not a function[Learn More] load.php:6:984 ._search http://www.mydomain.com/load.php:6:984 $.widget/</prototype[prop]</< http://www.mydomain.com/load.php:78:450 .search http://www.mydomain.com/load.php:6:853 $.widget/</prototype[prop]</< http://www.mydomain.com/load.php:78:450 ._searchTimeout/this.searching< http://www.mydomain.com/load.php:6:590 handlerProxy http://www.mydomain.com/load.php:84:579
 * Jonathan3 (talk) 20:48, 28 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Could you add "?debug=true" (or "&debug=true") to the URL, to see if a more helpful error message can be seen? Yaron Koren (talk) 14:37, 30 April 2017 (UTC)