Default button and validation of text arrays

[helen2007]

Hello

I have a java server pages with a form on it that has number of text boxes, hidden texts and some other controls (images, etc).

I have two questions. Could you please help me ?

1. I would like to make one of the buttons on my form the default, so if user presses enter, this button is clicked. How do I do that?

2. The name of text boxes on the form are dynamic. So I need to have a javascript that checks the fields of my form according to their type and then gives message if it is empty. What property should I use to indicate the type of control?

Any tutorials, codes, etc. is extremely appreciated.

Regards
Helen

[gits]

hi ...

could you please post the code you have so far ... so that we may have something to work with?

kind regards

[helen2007]

hi ...

could you please post the code you have so far ... so that we may have something to work with?

kind regards

Thank you for replying. Unfortunately, I donot have any code regarding these questions yet.

About my first question, I am not sure if this should be done in JavaScript or it should be done in JavaServer Pages?

And about the second question, I would like to write a loop that goes through different fields of document and if it is textbox, it will validate it. But I don't know what property and value shows that a control is a text box?

So if you could just give me some hints, I will write the code myself and in case of problems, I can post it again.

Thank you
Helen

[gits]

1. have a look at the keypress events and you could call a javascript-function that submits the form ... have a look here for a start

2. you could simply use:

[CODE=javascript]var textboxes = [];
var input_nodes = document.getEle mentsByTagName( 'input');

for (var i = 0, node; node = input_nodes[i]; i++) {
if (node.type == 'text') {
// we could fill a list
textboxes.push( node);

// or even call a validate-function
validate_func(n ode);
}
}[/CODE]
kind regards

[helen2007]

Many thanks for helping :)