Very simple form validation suddenly failing. Is it IE SP2?

[kempis555]

After about 2 years of faithful service, a quick form I made has stopped working for 3 users (as far as I know). The one user I could get a hold of said she was using IE 6.2 with service pack 2. When she filled out the form, the javascript said she did not have anything in one required field, even though she wrote something in there.

Has there been any troubles with the new service pack?

For me it works fine in IE 6.0.2, Firefox 0.8, Netscape7, and Opera.

The script looks something like this:

<script language="javascript">
<!--
function check(){
var validity = 1;
var message = "";
if (document.form.inquirer_name.value == ""){
message = message + "Please enter an inquirers name.\n\n";
validity = 0;
}
if (document.form.owner_name.value == ""){
message = message + "Please enter an owners name.\n\n";
validity = 0;
}


... (13 other field validations like the above) ...



if (document.form.other_lines.value == ""){
message = message + "Please enter other lines carried.\n\n" ;
validity = 0;
}
else{
if ( (document.form.email.value.indexOf('\@') == -1) || (document.form.email.value.indexOf('.') == -1) ){
message = message + "Invalid email address... \n\n" ;
validity = 0;
}
}
if (validity == 1){
return true;
}
else{
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
//-->
</script>

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

AFAIK, XP/SP2 doesn't introduce any problems with form access.

My first suggestion would be to not name your form "form", as it is a reserved word.

My second suggestion would be to change your form field access code from this syntax:

document.formName.fieldName.value

to this:

document.forms['formName'].elements['fieldName'].value

Hope this helps,
Dan

 

[kempis555]

That second code fragment is an interesting idea. I'll try those two out and see what happens.

Thanks,

-k

 

[vbkris]

can u also give us a link???

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