form problems

[Gordan]

Hi!

I have a voting pool and when user hits "vote" I want a pop up to appear
with results
So I put in form action (window.open(.. .....)) and the pop up appears but
the main page changes to blank.
please help

another thing:
I tried to do document.formna me.submit() in a function and it doesn't work!
but when I put the same code in href I works. I don't get it :-(

thanks, Gordan

[kaeli]

Re: form problems

In article <botmbk$hr4$1@l s219.htnet.hr>, gordanMENE@tork ulMAKNI.hr
enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> Hi!
>
> I have a voting pool and when user hits "vote" I want a pop up to appear
> with results
> So I put in form action (window.open(.. .....)) and the pop up appears but
> the main page changes to blank.
> please help
>[/color]

That would be because the form submitted. Instead of putting the popup
in the action, change the target.
[color=blue]
> another thing:
> I tried to do document.formna me.submit() in a function and it doesn't work!
> but when I put the same code in href I works. I don't get it :-(
>[/color]

I don't either without seeing some code to see if everything is defined
properly. "doesn't work" isn't very descriptive, either. It's like going
to a mechanic and telling him your car doesn't work.

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[Michael Winter]

Re: form problems

"Gordan" wrote on 12/11/2003:
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> Hi!
>
> I have a voting pool and when user hits "vote" I want a pop up to[/color]
appear[color=blue]
> with results
> So I put in form action (window.open(.. .....)) and the pop up[/color]
appears but[color=blue]
> the main page changes to blank.
> please help[/color]

This is part of how forms work: when the form is submitted, the
current document is changed to that specified by the URL in the
'action' attribute, and the form data is sent according to the
'method' specified. You can't change this behaviour.

I would solve this by sending the data to a processing page, and have
that launch your pop-up. If you're using a server-side scripting
language, like PHP, in addition to JavaScript, you could use the POST
method. If not - just HTML and JavaScript - then you'll have to use
GET. However, if the data you submit is private or sensitive in any
way, you shouldn't do this: GET form data is sent in the URL, which
isn't secure.

When you submit using GET, the name/value pairs of all the successful
controls on your form are appended to the URL, like so:

http://www.somesite.com/apage.html?c...ontrol2=value2 ...
etc.

You can retreive this information from the 'search' property of the
window's Location object (window.locatio n). The 'search' property
returns everything from the ? onwards. In this case:
?control1=value 1&control2=valu e2 Note that spaces are replaced with
plus (+) symbols**, and some characters are escaped (like escape() was
used on them), so you'll want to use unescape() on any values that
might have escaped characters in them.
[color=blue]
> another thing:
> I tried to do document.formna me.submit() in a function and it[/color]
doesn't work![color=blue]
> but when I put the same code in href I works. I don't get it :-([/color]

How have you been trying to submit the form? From an event handler on
a link or similar object? This works in IE 6, but we know that's no
guarantee:

<A href="#" onclick="docume nt.myForm.submi t(); return
false">Submit</A>


** If a string contains spaces, they are replaced by plus (+) symbols.
Any original plus symbols (those not converted from spaces) are
escaped, so there will be no confusion. This means that you can first
convert any plus symbols to spaces, then use unescape() on the string.

Mike

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