Need suggestions for a validation script

nalbiso · Aug 28, 2001

Hi!

I have a form with two radio buttons with the group name of status. The value of one of the buttons is "In Office" the other button's value is "Out of Office". I also have a textbox called destination. I am looking for suggestions for a script cause an alert box to appear when the "Out of Office" radio button is checked and the textbox called destination is not filled out. I tried to figure this out in javascript, but I am totally off base.

Thanks for any help!

JoliM · Aug 28, 2001

Check to see which radio button is checked, then set a variable for destination.value. Check to see if the variable has data, if not, pop-up an alert.

//after checking radio button
Dest = document.FormGroupName.Destination.value;

//add alert if name is blank
if (Dest == "&quot

{
alert('You must enter a destination.');

Hope that helps,
Joli

Guest_imported · Aug 28, 2001

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0">
<TITLE></TITLE>
<script language="javascript">
function check(){
if (document.rad.status[1].checked && document.rad.where.value=="&quot

alert("You forgot something! Don't you think?&quot

;
return false;
}
</script>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<form name="rad" onsubmit="return check();">

In Office: <input type="radio" name="status" value="in" checked><br>

Out of Office: <input type="radio" name="status" value="out"> Where: <input type="text" name="where"><br>

<input type="submit">
</form>

</BODY>
</HTML>

nalbiso · Aug 28, 2001

Thanks, I modified it to fit my field, radio buttons and form names, but I keep getting an "object expected" error. I tried running your script exactly as you typed it here in notepad to test it out and I got the same error.

Here was my page code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript">
function check(){
if (document.form1.status.[1].checked && document.form1.destination.value=="&quot

alert("You must indicate your destination when posting an Out of Office Record&quot

;
return false;
}
</SCRIPT>

<form Name="form1" METHOD="POST" ACTION="EBoard2.asp" onsubmit="return check();">
<tr>
<td width="207"><font face="Tahoma">In office<input type="radio" value="In Office" checked name="Status">
Out of Office<input type="radio" name="Status" value="Out of Office"></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<TEXTAREA rows="1" cols="20" NAME="Destination" size="20"></TEXTAREA></font></td>
</tr>

Did I miss something?

Thanks for your help!

Guest_imported · Aug 28, 2001

The error is the dot in this statement in function(I've made it [red]red[/red] and underlined to make it stand out):

if (document.form1.status[red].[/red][1].checked && _ _

Should be :

if (document.form1.status[1].checked && _ _ _

Hope this helps.

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Need suggestions for a validation script

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