Form submission

[yimitz]

I have a form I'm trouble shooting, (it's lenghty), After a user selects a check box they are prompted to enter a date in a text field. I check the value of the text field with an onBlur event to make sure it's a date but if the user hits the return button the form posts. I have removed instances of method and action from <form name=&quot;myname&quot; method=&quot;post&quot; action=&quot;myaction.asp&quot;> and I've removed all submit buttons trying to figure out why the form still posts.

When I remove the method=&quot;post&quot; action=&quot;myaction.asp&quot; the page posts to itself. If I leave them in, the form posts to myaction.asp.

How is it posting without a submit routine or button of type submit?

 

[onpnt]

if you use your validation in the form tag as onSubmit=&quot;&quot; then no matter what method the user submits (enter or click) the form will be validation script runs and returns errors as needed.
I assume the date is the last text field and that is why the enter key is sometimes being pressed.
I may not get it the 1st or 2nd time,
but how sweet that 15th time can be.

 

[yimitz]

That works!, it's actually not the last input field but I can live with the extra notifications when it runs through the validation routine if the user skips a field and goes to this field first (why they would I don't know but I have to figure somebody will eventually)

Thanks for the help!