Javascript function

[heals1ic]

For the life of me I cannot seem to sort out what I am doing wrong here.

My firefox error console reports that signup is not a function :

The script is in the header.

<script language="JavaScript"> 
function signup(){
	alert("Hello");
};
</script>
                    <form name="signup">
                    <table class="signuptbl" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0>
                        <tr>
                            <td align="right">
                                <label for="email">E-mail&nbsp;:&nbsp;</label>
                            </td>
                            <td align="left">
                                <input class="prof" type="text" name="email" size="35" maxlength="80" value="">  *
                            </td>
                            <td align="center" colspan="2">
                                <input type="button" name="subsignup" value="SUBMIT" onclick="signup();">
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                    </form>

I know it is probably something simple but I have spent quite a bit of time stripping the code back to its barest to diagnose but still I cannot get this to work.

 

[Lokoono]

Change your form name to something other than signup and it should work. I'm no pro at Javascript, but I think its because you're declaring both the form name and your function name with the same "signup" declaration. I took your code, changed the form name, and it worked for me (I got a hello). Good luck.

 

[heals1ic]

Thanks

I changed the function name to signupnow() and it seems to work.

I have never come accross this issue before though?

 

[Lokoono]

Could be one of the issues to the latest builds to the web browsers. I know they're doing a lot of changes that affect web developers (IE7 for example has several builds and each one seems to change some rule that affects HTML/Javascript coding). I wish I could tell you for sure what was going on though. Take care.