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Processing Forms with Dojo

The job’s not done until the paperwork is complete.

—Anonymous

This chapter finishes up the tutorial. We’ve already added validation, server-side processing, and widgets, but there are a few finishing touches required before we can call our work complete. This chapter describes the remaining problems with the form and shows us how we can use Dojo to fix them.

5.1. Using Dojo to Process Forms

We are almost done upgrading our form to use Dojo. To some extent, we are done—we could declare victory and go home or at least submit our changes to production so that the users could benefit from our wonderful changes. We’ve addressed most of the problems identified in our analysis of the original HTML page. However, there are ...

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