how to see if submit but was pressed

[mcghee31]

I am trying to test to see if a submit button was pressed on a form using

<script>
if(document.req.submit){
  alert('testing');
}
</script>

the form code start with <form method="post" action="">

the submit button code is <input type="submit" id="submit" value="submit"

What am I missing are doing wrong?

I tried document.req.onsubmit but no luck either

thanks

 

[glenmac]

<form method="post" action="">

 <input type="submit" id="submit" value="submit" onclick = "alert('testing')">

Glen

http://lantzvillecomputers.com

 

[mcghee31]

thanks Glen, I am trying to build an external script and thus that example is one way to validate but I was look to validate it in the external script

I changed my tack to: <form onSubmit="passVals()" >

In the head of the html doc I have

<script>

function passVals() {
alert('testing');
}

That method worked like a charm but know I have another questions with the same doc. This is an HTML doc that's called from a parent HTML doc; is there a way to get the name of the parent html doc that called this window?

Thanks for the input

 

[mcghee31]

I tried code on the child form

function passVals() {

   document.appts.req_f_name.value ='testing';

}

//appts is the name of the parent form
//req.f_name is the name of a text box on the parent form

Any ideas what I am missing?

 

[mcghee31]

Ok I got it I had to add .document

window.opener.document.appts.req_f_name.value ='testing';