Simple onSubmit not verifying... 1

erinql · Jul 11, 2002

This is copied directly from a DevShed example, and created in a file called submit.php.

Code:

<html>
<head>
<script>
function printMessage()
{
        alert(&quot;No, the answer is not &quot; + document.forms[0].answer.value
+ &quot;.\nEveryone knows the answer is 42.&quot;);
        return false;
}
</script>
</head>

<body>

<form action=&quot;submit.php&quot; method=&quot;post&quot; onSubmit=&quot;return
printMessage()&quot;> What is the answer? <br> <input type=&quot;text&quot;
name=&quot;answer&quot;> <br> <input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Tell me the answer!&quot;>
</form>

</body>
</html>

I'm using IE 5.5, and everytime it submits, it simply comes back to submit.php - never gives me a message. Any idea why? Erin Quick-Laughlin
DBA, PHP/MySQL programmer

RISTMO · Jul 11, 2002

hmm. Not sure why that wouldn't work, but then again, i've never tried it liek taht. I usually do this.

<form action="submit.php" method="post">
What is the answer? <br> <input type="text" name="answer"> <br>
<input type="button" value="Tell me the answer!" onClick="printMessage();">
</form>

Rick If I have helped you just click the first link below to let me know

erinql · Jul 11, 2002

In this case, it's pretty much just the onSubmit that's not working - I would just use onBlur and validate for each field, but I'm not sure how to let people get out of the field without fulfilling it's requirement.

So I decided to use onSubmit and do a collective function for all the individual verifications. But after running into a ton of trouble, I decided to run a simple one from DevShed, and that doesn't work either? Could it be a browser setting? Erin Quick-Laughlin
DBA, PHP/MySQL programmer

RISTMO · Jul 11, 2002

Here. This works fine:

<html>
<head>
<script>
function printMessage(){
if(document.forms[0].answer.value!=42){
alert("No, the answer is not " + document.forms[0].answer.value + ".\nEveryone knows the answer is 42.&quot

;
} else{
alert("Correct!!! The answer IS 42!&quot

;
}
}
</script>
</head>

<body>

<form onSubmit="printMessage();return false;">
What is the answer? <br>
<input type="text" name="answer"> <br>
<input type="submit" value="Tell me the answer!">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Rick
If I have helped you just click the first link below to let me know

erinql · Jul 12, 2002

Thanks Rick! Erin Quick-Laughlin
DBA, PHP/MySQL programmer

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