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         $form->get('firstName')->submit('Fabien');
 
+.. tip::
+
+    When submitting a form via a "PATCH" request, you may want to update only a few
+    submitted fields. To achieve this, you may pass an optional second boolean
+    parameter to ``submit()``. Passing ``false`` will remove any missing fields
+    within the form object. Otherwise, the mising fields will be set to ``null``.
+
 .. _cookbook-form-submit-request:
 
 Passing a Request to Form::submit() (Deprecated)