PayPal "Add to Cart" and Options

[Adendum]

I suspect I am being dumb here...........

I require several Paypal "Add to Cart" buttons on a page. And one of them requires some options before clicking the button. I'm using the in-built PayPal eCommerce buttons and have set up a few on one page. In sandbox testing they seem to work OK. However I just added a button with an option and when testing I am not seeing the option from the option text box.

I've added a button. Added a form edit box. I've given the edit box a name and used that name in the PayPal button for both the label and the option. Each PayPal button has a unique name.

So what have I missed or misunderstood?

[Pablo]

The PayPal button and/or the option field should not be on a form.

Basically it works like this:
1) Add the PayPal button
2) Add an option field
3) Select the option field in the Options section of the PayPal button to associate it with the button

[Adendum]

The PayPal button and/or the option field should not be on a form.

Basically it works like this:
1) Add the PayPal button
2) Add an option field
3) Select the option field in the Options section of the PayPal button to associate it with the button

Yup - that's how it is. No form as the extension puts that all together (nice touch). It's odd though...if I copy all the buttons to a blank page they work as expected.

So there must be something on the page they don't like. Prime candidate is a jQuery Tabbed section as that's where all the buttons are now - several in each tab).

[Adendum]

And I'm getting a lot of these.................

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[Pablo]

I don't think the options will work on a tab. A jQuery Tab is also a (complex) form. So the PayPal button will think that the option is part of the form and ignore it.

[Adendum]

Kind of....the simple Add to cart buttons work OK in a jQuery tabbed are but anything with an option box fails.

So, I need to find another way of handling those

[BaconFries]

HI Paul untested so this may or may not work...since a jQuery is a form in its own way/right you need to make it think it is a form but still keep its main functions, so try this open the jQuery tabs HTML and insert the following in the
Before Tag
<form target="PayPal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" style="margin:0;padding:0;">
and then add</form> to the After Tag
As mentioned untested it may or may not work

[Adendum]

Hi Bacon,

Thanks for that but too late......I've gone for a simple CSS menu to open a series of independent pages in an iframe. So you get the same 'look' as a jQuery Tabbed area and in hindsight I think I prefer it as there is more control and it's easier to manage.



And hey - you should be resting!!!!

[BaconFries]

lol I know I know..... but you know the old saying "No rest for the wicked" ...just trying to stop myself from going insane or I will die of boredom