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  • bizt
    #1

    Submiting a form using javascript

    Hi,

    First let me point out I have googled this and also must have done
    this operation a dozen times (altho a few years ago) but for some
    reason I cant get a form to submit using javascript .. Ive tried both
    FF and IE. All the pages that I look at all say the same way which is
    the way Im sure Ive done it before:


    My code is:

    (javascript function)

    function DeleteImages (oForm) {
    alert('submitti ng form') // this works ...
    oForm.submit() // this doesnt!!
    }

    (html button)

    <input type="button" name="submit" value="Delete Selected"
    onclick="Delete Images(this.for m);" />


    Maybe just a sanity check is needed but I cant see what the problem
    is. Where am I going wrong? I know that the function is being called
    because the alert message is executing but the form isnt submitting.

    Cheers

    Burnsy
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    • RobG
      #2
      Re: Submiting a form using javascript

      On Feb 13, 10:15 pm, bizt <bissa...@yahoo .co.ukwrote:
      First let me point out I have googled this and also must have done
      this operation a dozen times (altho a few years ago) but for some
      reason I cant get a form to submit using javascript .. Ive tried both
      FF and IE. All the pages that I look at all say the same way which is
      the way Im sure Ive done it before:
      [...]
      <input type="button" name="submit" value="Delete Selected"
      onclick="Delete Images(this.for m);" />
      Browsers make named controls available as properties of the DOM form
      object. Giving any control a name of 'submit' shadows the form's
      submit method, so form.submit() is equivalent to
      form.elements['submit']().

      There is rarely any need to name a submit button, remove the name (or
      change it to something other than 'submit') and life will return to
      normal...


      --
      Rob

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        • Gregor Kofler
          #3
          Re: Submiting a form using javascript

          RobG meinte:
          There is rarely any need to name a submit button
          There is. Frequently. When your server-side script wants to know,
          whether you hit "cancel" or "delete" or "save"...

          Gregor


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            • Zvonko Biskup
              #4
              Re: Submiting a form using javascript


              "Gregor Kofler" <usenet@gregork ofler.atwrote in message
              news:KEFsj.95$Z 67.142@nntpserv er.swip.net...
              RobG meinte:
              >
              >There is rarely any need to name a submit button
              >
              There is. Frequently. When your server-side script wants to know, whether
              you hit "cancel" or "delete" or "save"...
              So? Can't you name it 'delete', 'cancel' and 'save'?

              http://medjimurje.net



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                • RobG
                  #5
                  Re: Submiting a form using javascript

                  On Feb 14, 3:13 am, Gregor Kofler <use...@gregork ofler.atwrote:
                  RobG meinte:
                  >
                  There is rarely any need to name a submit button
                  >
                  There is. Frequently. When your server-side script wants to know,
                  whether you hit "cancel" or "delete" or "save"...
                  I guess you mean where a form has multiple submit buttons to indicate
                  which of a number of actions to take when the form is submitted - the
                  name can be used to determine which button was used to submit it.

                  That's certainly one case where naming the button is useful, athough
                  the same functionality can be provided using a single submit button
                  and say checkboxes or radio buttons to indicate the action to take.


                  --
                  Rob

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                    • Gregor Kofler
                      #6
                      Re: Submiting a form using javascript

                      RobG meinte:
                      On Feb 14, 3:13 am, Gregor Kofler <use...@gregork ofler.atwrote:
                      >RobG meinte:
                      >>
                      >>There is rarely any need to name a submit button
                      >There is. Frequently. When your server-side script wants to know,
                      >whether you hit "cancel" or "delete" or "save"...
                      >
                      I guess you mean where a form has multiple submit buttons to indicate
                      which of a number of actions to take when the form is submitted - the
                      name can be used to determine which button was used to submit it.
                      >
                      That's certainly one case where naming the button is useful, athough
                      the same functionality can be provided using a single submit button
                      and say checkboxes or radio buttons to indicate the action to take.
                      Agreed, but I wouldn't call that good usability.
                      "
                      I want to

                      [ ] cancel editing
                      [ ] save this record
                      [ ] delete this record

                      [ Go >]
                      "

                      When have you last seen such a form? (It makes sense for multiple
                      entries, though.)

                      Gregor


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                      http://web.gregorkofler.com ::: meine JS-Spielwiese
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                        • Gregor Kofler
                          #7
                          Re: Submiting a form using javascript

                          Zvonko Biskup meinte:
                          "Gregor Kofler" <usenet@gregork ofler.atwrote in message
                          news:KEFsj.95$Z 67.142@nntpserv er.swip.net...
                          >RobG meinte:
                          >>
                          >>There is rarely any need to name a submit button
                          >There is. Frequently. When your server-side script wants to know, whether
                          >you hit "cancel" or "delete" or "save"...
                          >
                          So? Can't you name it 'delete', 'cancel' and 'save'?
                          Sure. But you *named* it.

                          Gregor


                          --
                          http://photo.gregorkofler.at ::: Landschafts- und Reisefotografie
                          http://web.gregorkofler.com ::: meine JS-Spielwiese
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