Autorefresh a form every 10 seconds

[DarVar]

Hi I have a simple form I want to auto submit every 10 seconds

I want the submit it with out refreshing the whole page.
i.e. I tried the following but it refreshes the whole page first

function setup(){
window.setInterval("submitform()",10000);
}

function submitform()
{
document.forms[0].submit();
}

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You'll need to use iframes or frames (or a popup or new window) if you want to submit the form without refreshnig the whole page.

Simply target the form to the frame name:

<form ... target="frameName">

Hope this helps,
Dan

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[robherc]

*building on BillyRayPreachersSon's post* you can also set many attributes for the target window if you'd like to make this action a little more transparent to the end user (i.e. have the target window be an iframe with [tt]visibility=invisible[/tt]).

I guess my biggest question, however, would be why are you wanting to submit the form every 10 seconds? That jsut sounds like a LOT of extraneous information being dumped somewhere on your server for you to have to wade through later to me.


I hope this helps;
Rob Hercules

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

DarVar,

Did these suggestions help you out?

Dan



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