5 ms·

I'd love to know what the use-case is for a page with 6000 form items!

• deleted 13y ago
  [deleted]
  • hk__2 13y ago
    Do you have a real-world example of a form with 500 inputs?
    • oakwhiz 13y ago
      Might I suggest a tax form?
      • Samuel_Michon 13y ago
        Surely, those are divided in several steps/pages? Anything over 5 fieldsets and I’m sending it to the server first and then present a new page with the rest of the questions.
• Pxtl 13y ago
  I could easily see it coming up in survey-software or massive legal forms where paging is implemented via hide/show. This is a bit of an abuse of the hide/show mechanic, but I've written abominations like that myself. Yes, books of paper forms with over 6000 fields can happen. Especially common if you've got a lot of "only fill the one out of these 10 forms that are relevant to you" kind of layout, or cases where you're using forms in a tabular layout - 6000 fields is a 20x300 (dunno why I said 80 a moment ago) grid. Large, but not unthinkable. 300 lines of a personnel directory with 20 fields on each? Imagine you've got a scrollable list of something and have 20 visible textbox elements in each list entry? This kind of stuff was super-common back before AJAX. I could see supporting an internal application and having this problem, for example.
  • Samuel_Michon 13y ago
    > 6000 fields is a 20x80 grid Huh, how does that work? According to my math, it would be a 20x300 grid, and every single field would have to have an input element on it. That’s pretty darn big.
    • Pxtl 13y ago
      ... oops. Dunno where my head was there.