Greasemonkey is a truly impressive addition to Firefox and will be IS a nice addition to Opera 8. In simple terms, it allows you to write custom JavaScripts to run on any sites you like (or even all sites). There is a fairly healthy group of scripts already available, and many more surely on the way.
- Auto-Save Forms
This script saves all text in forms to a cookie for you as you type. If you any reason you lose the data in the form (eg your PC crashes, your session expires, etc), you can click the "Repopulate Form" button and your text will be restored.
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My client would like to be able to see and print form inquiries like the HTML form the visitor used. In other words have the existing form(s) populated with the XML data the user submitted or have the user submissions email the HTML form with fields autopopulated with the XML data. Would this script help accomplish that? I've been searching awhile and this seems to be close but I'm a novice coder and not sure what to do with your script.
Any help would be tremendously appreciated.
Thanks,
mark
doidom@yahoo.com
#1, forms repopulated with XML data?, United States, 28 April 2006. Reply to this.
I have installed the script in firefox but I don't see any "repopulate" button.
Where is this cookie stored?
thanks!
#2, Dimitris, Greece, 5 January 2007. Reply to this.
Same I can't get the repopulate button to show anywhere.
#3, Austin, Unknown, 9 July 2007. Reply to this.
I'm also not seeing any repopulate button or stored cookie. (With Firefox 2.0.0.3 and accepting Cookies)
#4, Anonymous, Germany, 23 July 2007. Reply to this.
The repopulate form button appears in the top right of the page you are currently browsing. You may need to scroll up to see it.
#5, Thomas Lawrence, United Kingdom, 10 February 2008. Reply to this.
hi... can you guys help me how to save the forms while users click on submit button..
pls mail it to : ar_rafiq@hotmail.com
#6, ar, India, 13 October 2008. Reply to this.
How would I make this thing able to save images instead of text?
#7, Rafael Cosman, Unknown, 26 November 2008. Reply to this.
I tried a few text saver programs and none of them worked. I finally tried this and it worked which makes me happy.
I have a site like http://rasseru.110mb.com/RIKAI.htm where I enter text in (lots of time for studying vocabulary of other languages that I have come across online) and when I open firefox3.5, it's really weird, it only saves the last box. In Firefox3, it saves only the first box which is better but still sucks.
Now I have a program that saves all my information. Awesome
Only complaint I have is once I repopulate my text, the button still stays there which is slightly annoying but not a big problem. Maybe if there was an X to close it or something
#8, russ, Japan, 24 June 2009. Reply to this.
seems like similar site urls interfere with each other
#9, russ, Japan, 24 June 2009. Reply to this.