Refresh or close after form submission

[dmorand]

I have a page that I want to be refreshed after a user submits a form. I also have another page that I want to be closed after a user submits a form.

How would I go about doing this??

[gits]

could you explain that a bit more? what do you mean with closing a page - do you mean closing a window that displays a page? when you submit what happens then - do you call a php script that you control?

kind regards

[dmorand]

I have a popup form that's used to submit comments. When the user clicks the submit button, I'd like the popup window to close once the submission takes place.

[gits]

just call a js-function onsubmit of your form that uses window.close()

kind regards

[dmorand]

just call a js-function onsubmit of your form that uses window.close()

kind regards

Excellent, I'll give that a try

[dmorand]

How come if I try to do this:

onSubmit="windo w.location.relo ad();" in my form tag it's not submitting the form, it's just refreshing the screen. I want the screen to refresh after the form gets submitted to allow the user to enter a new form without having to jump between screens.

[acoder]

onsubmit is called as soon as the submit button is pressed, not after the submit takes place. Add the refresh to the submitted page instead.

[htmlnoob112233]

I have the same problem as I want to make the submit button refresh.

I have 3 frames on my page and need the page to refresh after a submit button is pressed for its changes to take effect (change style sheet)

However using


<input type="submit" onSubmit="windo w.location.relo ad();" value="Go">just submits and does not refresh.

I am using the http://php.about.com/od/finishedphp1...s_switcher.htm script.

Does anyone know how to make the button refresh the page as well?

[acoder]

onsubmit is a form event, not an input button event. In any case, that wouldn't work either. I assume the form is in a frame and the form submits to the same frame. What you'd need to do is refresh the whole page after the page has been submitted.

[htmlnoob112233]

Yes, I don't want my visitors to have to manualy do that.

I was thinking of putting js into my cookie.php which is what the form is linked to.
But don't know what to add?

[acoder]

You'd need to reference the parent using 'parent' or 'top' and then reload. It is possible to change styles without reloading the page. One other thing: if possible, try to avoid frames.

[htmlnoob112233]

I tried targeting it with _Parent but it just loaded the same frame in the frame that was suppost to refresh.

[acoder]

Do you only want to reload one frame or the page which contains the 3 frames?

[htmlnoob112233]

just 1 other frame would do, but either. If its possible to reload the whole page then i'd prefer that.

[acoder]

To access the parent (the page containing the frames) and reload it:

parent.location.reload();

You would call this after page load in one of the frames. Is there any particular reason why you're using frames?