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[mtek]

Hi,

Another issue. I'm triny to submit a form and have it run some
Javascript validation code before continuing. The button is an HTML
button. This is my code:

a href="javascript:document.Add_Data.action =
'savedata.php';document.Add_Data.submit();">SAVE Data</a>

The name of the form is Add_Data.

Any idea why that would not work??

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Another issue. I'm triny to submit a form and have it run some
Javascript validation code before continuing. The button is an HTML
button.

It is not. It is a pseudo-link.

This is my code:

a href="javascript:document.Add_Data.action =
'savedata.php';document.Add_Data.submit();">SAVE Data</a>

Yuck. Consider this instead:

<script type="text/javascript">
function submitMe(f)
{
f.action = "saveData.php";
f.submit();
}

document.write('<a href=""'
+ ' onclick="submitMe(document.forms[\'Add_Data\']);"'
+ '>SAVE Data<\/a>');
</script>

It would be better to use the same server-side script for all actions, a
real HTML button --

<input type="submit" name="save" value="SAVE Data">

-- for this one, and then use "isset ($_REQUEST['save'])" (or its quivalent)
server-side. This way it also worked if client-side script support was
unavailable.

The name of the form is Add_Data.

Any idea why that would not work??

a) Unsupported proprietary `javascript:' URI scheme
b) A form control named "submit" overriding the form's submit() method

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PointedEars