form validation then action

[dougawells]

I'm not figuring this probably simple thing out.

I've got a form that when submitted takes an action to a Perl
script..."...formsubmit.pl".

I want to be able to validate some fields, so put an onSubmit fall in
the <form> tag. Problem is, that if the form validates fine, the action
never takes place.

What am i missing?

 

[VK]

I'm not figuring this probably simple thing out.

I've got a form that when submitted takes an action to a Perl
script..."...formsubmit.pl".

I want to be able to validate some fields, so put an onSubmit fall in
the <form> tag. Problem is, that if the form validates fine, the action
never takes place.

What am i missing?

To return true from onsubmit handler.
<form action="foo.cgi" onsubmit="return validate(this)">
where function validate returns either true or false.

 

[dougawells]

That's what i thought, but it doesn't seem to be working. I have the
<form onSubmit="return formValidate();" action="sendmyform.pl">

function formValidate() {

if (field is empty) {alert & then send focus to field in question}

}

This works if I have a problem field - I get an alert and return focus
to that field. But, I never execute the CGI, no matter what. I tried
return (true). I tried return; ...

??

 

[Lee]

(e-mail address removed) said:

That's what i thought, but it doesn't seem to be working. I have the
<form onSubmit="return formValidate();" action="sendmyform.pl">

function formValidate() {

if (field is empty) {alert & then send focus to field in question}

}

This works if I have a problem field - I get an alert and return focus
to that field. But, I never execute the CGI, no matter what. I tried
return (true). I tried return; ...

??

Post a link to your page or the smallest subset of the code that
demonstrates the problem. You've got an error somewhere.


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[dougawells]

This is my form validation subroutine:

function validateForm() {

if (window.document.ticket_form.name.value == 0 ||
window.document.ticket_form.name.value == "") {
alert ("You must enter your name");
window.document.ticket_form.name.focus();
return;
}
if (window.document.ticket_form.cc_num.value == 0 ||
window.document.ticket_form.cc_num.value == ""){
alert ("You must enter a credit card number");
window.document.ticket_form.cc_num.focus();
return;
}
if (window.document.ticket_form.phone.value == 0 ||
window.document.ticket_form.phone.value == ""){
alert ("You must enter a phone number");
window.document.ticket_form.phone.focus();
return;
}

return;
}

my HTML form line is:

<form name="ticket_form" onSubmit="return validateForm();"
action="/cgi-bin/form2file?ticket-template" method=post>

 

[dougawells]

I tried return; return (true); return ("true"); return (0); all with
the same result - the CGI never gets called.

 

[Evertjan.]

I tried return; return (true); return ("true"); return (0); all with
the same result - the CGI never gets called.

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[Lee]

(e-mail address removed) said:

This is my form validation subroutine:

function validateForm() {

if (window.document.ticket_form.name.value == 0 ||
window.document.ticket_form.name.value == "") {
alert ("You must enter your name");
window.document.ticket_form.name.focus();
return;
}
if (window.document.ticket_form.cc_num.value == 0 ||
window.document.ticket_form.cc_num.value == ""){
alert ("You must enter a credit card number");
window.document.ticket_form.cc_num.focus();
return;
}
if (window.document.ticket_form.phone.value == 0 ||
window.document.ticket_form.phone.value == ""){
alert ("You must enter a phone number");
window.document.ticket_form.phone.focus();
return;
}

return;
}

my HTML form line is:

<form name="ticket_form" onSubmit="return validateForm();"
action="/cgi-bin/form2file?ticket-template" method=post>

All of your returns except the last one should be:
return false;
The last one should be:
return true;


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[dougawells]

Thank you