Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Looking Behind the Scenes
Now that you have a working form, let's look at just what the APEX Form Wizard built in order to understand a bit
more about how your form works. You can use the Form
➤
Display Form Details option of the Web Developer Toolbar
add-in (available for both Chrome and Firefox) to display the form details. Figure
6-16
illustrates the Create a Ticket
form with the form details exposed.
Figure 6-16.
Form on the
TICKETS
table with form details exposed
■
the Web developer toolbar add-in is a free web development tool, written by Chris pederick, that lets you
inspect various aspects of a web page. to learn more about Web developer, visit
http://chrispederick.com/
.
Note
The highlighted input tags display the input identifier and name for each field of the form. Both are unique for
each form field. The input identifier is the column name prepended with the page number. The input name identifies
the element names that APEX uses internally to process data in the form. Note that the columns you didn't choose to
display in the form,
TICKET_ID
and
STATUS_ID
, are still present in the page's HTML.
A look behind the scenes tells you more. Click Edit Page 2 in the Developer toolbar to view the elements that
make up the new form. You should see results similar to those in Figure
6-17
.
