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very simple cfinput question

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leadman

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I just put this following little form up. When I submit the form without putting any info into the text box the form submits to itself. Shouldnt I get a message saying "Please enter text" since I have included [tt]required="yes"[/tt]

[tt]<cfform>
<cfinput name=&quot;tester&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; size=&quot;10&quot; maxlength=&quot;10&quot; required=&quot;yes&quot; message=&quot;Please enter text&quot;>
<input name=&quot;submit&quot; type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;submit&quot;>
</cfform>[/tt]
 
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I just tried your simple form and it worked on the second try as I failed the first time. I noticed I forgot to save it with .cfm extension instead of .htm and after I corrected the page extension it worked liked it's suppose too. :)
 
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I tried your link isn't working or your server is down?
 
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you need a method and an action attribute within your cfform tag for the template to work properly. If you add these, your cfinput tag will validate as you want it to.
 
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Yep... while just having <FORM> or <CFFORM> works (submits to itself by default), it's not considered a valid HTTP request, and the javascript that CF uses to validate won't fire.

You need to add the method and an action.
-Carl
 
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I changed it to include an action and method. here is what I have (it is at ) I have no idea why the link i gave above wont work.

<body>
<cfform action=&quot;form.cfm&quot; method=&quot;post&quot; enablecab=&quot;yes&quot;>
<cfinput name=&quot;tester&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; size=&quot;10&quot; maxlength=&quot;10&quot; required=&quot;yes&quot; message=&quot;Please enter text&quot;>
<input name=&quot;submit&quot; type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;submit&quot;>
</cfform>
</body>
 
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And you're saying it doesn't work?

It works perfectly here.

Do you happen to have javascript turned off in your browser? Without javascript, CFFORM validation won't happen.
-Carl
 
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I have javascript turned on. I'm using IE6 in winxp. This is very confusing. It wont validate on my work computer either (same setup)
 
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Have you tried taking off &quot;enablecab=yes&quot;?

I my machine, enabling the cab makes the system hang from quite a long time. Perhaps, somehow, your browser is giving up/timing out and just proceeds with the submit (though, doesn't seem likely).
-Carl
 
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I'm having the exact same problem with any cfinput tag that has required=&quot;yes&quot;. This happened when I upgraded from CF5.0 to CF MX at my hosting company. They're looking into it now. Some people do not get the javascript error that I get, but with my database not accepting null strings in certain fields, the form gets submitted anyway and the database returns an error from the null strings.
 
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I think I may have found it.


This was a bug and is fixed in the most recent MX updater package. The following was listed as a bug fix on Mar 19, 2003.

General Server-Related Issues
The following general server issues, including data validation issues, have been fixed:


Issue ID
Custom validation error messages were ignored on _required form fields. 45443
 
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maybe that update will solve the problem...
if not, we encountered a similar situation which we solved by taking out any carriage returns in the message. This simple issue was ruining all our cfinput validations on a form. Seems unlikely, but it was the source of our problem.
 
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