OO JS and onsubmit - error: not a function

[Justin Koivisto]

This is probabally a basic question, but I don't quite understand what
is going on with this...

Say I have a variable called "myObject" which is an object created from
a class I wrote. The class has a method called "testing".

When I submit a form, I want to call it:
<form onsubmit="myObject.testing()" ...

When I click the submit button for the form, I get the following
message in Mozilla's JavaScript Console:
"Error: myObject.testing is not a function"

While trying to figure this out, I created a new function called
"test_form", and changed the form declaration to look like:
<form onsubmit="test_form()" ...

Test form looks like this:
function test_form(){
myObject.testing();
}

When I do this, the script works exactly as I had intended it to. Can
any of you js experts tell me why that is?

 

[Dietmar Meier]

When I submit a form, I want to call it:
<form onsubmit="myObject.testing()" ...

When I click the submit button for the form, I get the following
message in Mozilla's JavaScript Console:
"Error: myObject.testing is not a function"

Probably you have another object or property named "myObject"
which is found in the form element's scope chain before your
requested object is found; this could be a form element named
"myObject", for example.

Try to find out what's happening by
1) trying <form onsubmit="alert(myObject.testing)"> (cave:
no function calling round brackets!)
2) looking for other occurences of "myObject" in your document

ciao, dhgm

 

[Justin Koivisto]

DOH! Such a simply thing to overlook! Thanks a bunch!