How to allow left click to enter info in text box form in FireFox

**drhowarddrfine** · Dec 20 '08, 02:53 PM

What you say should not be happening so there must be something else wrong. Without a link, or the complete markup, we can only guess.

**jerrydigital** · Dec 20 '08, 07:18 PM

Below is the code to my contact page. I orignially created my webpage with internet explorer and it worked great. when I converted to Firefox, I have noticed some things in the code changed and obviously something changed which doesn't allow me to left click on the text box. any ideas what that could be? Thanks for any thoughts.

Code:

<html><head>
<title>Contact Us</title>
<script language="JavaScript1.2">
function disableselect(e){
return false
}
function reEnable(){
return true
}
document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false")
if (window.sidebar){
document.onmousedown=disableselect
document.onclick=reEnable
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function validate_form ( )
{
valid = true;
if ( document.contactus.name.value == "")
{
alert ( "Please type in your Name." );
document.contactus.name.focus();
return false;
}
if ( document.contactus.email.value == "")
{
alert ( "Please enter an email address." );
document.contactus.email.focus();
return false;
}
var checkEmail = "@.";
        var checkStr = document.contactus.email.value;
        var EmailValid = false;
        var EmailAt = false;
        var EmailPeriod = false;
        for (i = 0;  i < checkStr.length;  i++)
        {
        ch = checkStr.charAt(i);
        for (j = 0;  j < checkEmail.length;  j++)
        {
        if (ch == checkEmail.charAt(j) && ch == "@")
        EmailAt = true;
        if (ch == checkEmail.charAt(j) && ch == ".")
        EmailPeriod = true;
          if (EmailAt && EmailPeriod)
                break;
          if (j == checkEmail.length)
                break;
        }
        // if both the @ and . were in the string
        if (EmailAt && EmailPeriod)
        {
                EmailValid = true
                break;
        }
        }
        if (!EmailValid)
        {
        alert("The \"email\" field must contain an \"@\" and a \".\".");
        document.contactus.email.focus();
        return (false);
        }
if ( document.contactus.subber.value == "")
{
alert ( "Please type in a Subject." );
document.contactus.subber.focus();
return false;
}
return valid;
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="contactus.asp" method=post name="contactus" onsubmit="return validate_form ( );">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="ContactUs Form Submission">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="thankyou.html">
<pre>
<b><center><font face="comics sans ms" size="+3">If you wish to contact us, please fill out the form below.</font> 
<br><font face="comic sans ms"><b>Name:	      <input type="text" name="name" size="25">
<br>Email Address: <input type="text" name="email" size="25">
<br>Subject:	      <input type="text" name="subber" size="25">
<br>Message:
<textarea cols="50" rows="4" name="message"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Submit"><input type="reset">
</form>
</body>
</html>

**serdar** · Dec 20 '08, 08:49 PM

I didn't read the entire code but this is what disables the mouse click in Firefox. Remove the following lines from your code and test.

Code:

if (window.sidebar){
document.onmousedown=disableselect
document.onclick=reEnable
}

And these two functions are not needed in this case:

Code:

function disableselect(e){
return false
}
function reEnable(){
return true
}

**jerrydigital** · Dec 21 '08, 02:14 AM

great, thank you very much. this works now.

How to allow left click to enter info in text box form in FireFox

How to allow left click to enter info in text box form in FireFox

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