<form name="form1" class="newsletter relative color_default button_in_input" action="process.php" method="post">
Hi trying to submit this form but its not doing anything at all. just stays there all the time.
You need to close the form and ensure that the submit button is within the <form></form> tags.
Good Day
I am using an ASP.NET webform where I have wrapped the following button inside the form tags:
<form runat="server">
<button class="btn btn-primary" onclick="window.location='http://google.co.za';">Login</button>
</form>
ISSUE: The problem is that when clicking on the button, it just directs to the current page...does not redirect. However, when I remove the form tags, the button works. If I leave the form tags and I use an anchor tag to relocate, it works as well...It is just the button that is giving me issues.
Why is that?
I am using Twitter bootstrap as well(extra info..)
Thank you
Add type="button" attribute to your button tag. Without it button works as submit.
I want to know how I can send text from a textarea to a form by clicking on a button. Both the textarea and form are on the same page. I've searched the site and the web but can't find the right answer. Any help would be great, thanks.
<form action="html_form_action_here" method="post">
<textarea rows="2" cols="20" name="text_area">
</textarea>
</form>
I have a piece of code like this.
<form method="get" action="{$self}" name="addcommentform">
<textarea title="{$enterComment}" name="comment" class="commentarea" </textarea>
<input class="Button" type="submit" value="{$postComment}" />
</form>
How do I keep track of when what is the text entered in the form's textarea when the user navigates away from the page? I want to prompt the user with a warning message so he/she doesn't lose the text.
Thanks.
You could use the javascript/jquery blur event, and if the user hasn't clicked the desired button have it display the form values. This might help JQuery Blur Validation Problem
Stu
Take a look at this Javascript code snippet:
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/disableclose.html
This takes advantage of the window's onbeforeunload event which fires when the user is about to leave the page.
I have a problem that in IE8 the enter does not work to submit a form. I have generated a test page to expose this problem. It seems that displaying the form in the onLoad function disables results that the enter button does not trigger a submit anymore. Is this a bug in IE8 or is it some security issue?
The code to reproduce this is:
onload = function() {
document.getElementById('test').style.display = 'block';
}
#test {
display: none;
}
<form id="test" method="get" action="javascript:alert('woei!')">
<input type="text" name="user" value="">
<input type="password" name="pw" value="">
<input type="submit" value="submit" id="submit">
</form>
I have found a proper solution and wanted it to share with u guys.
Instead of using <input type="submit...>, use <button type="submit"...>.
This will do exactly the same in the other browsers (IE6-7, FF3) AND works in IE8. :)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#test {
display: none;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
onload = function() {
document.getElementById('test').style.display = 'block';
};
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="test" method="get" action="javascript:alert('woei!')">
<input type="text" name="user" value="" />
<input type="password" name="pw" value="" />
<button type="submit" value="submit" id="submit"></button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
$("form input").keypress(function (e) {
if(e.which === 13) {
$("form").submit();
}
});
Above is a proper fix. Ref: IE Not submitting my form on enter press of enter key?
I think everthing is much more complicated than you think...
when a form's display value is set to none with a css class or just with a style attribute on page inital, hitting the enter key in a text field does not work only if you have more than one input field with text type... if you have one text field it works fine.. if you have more than one, it does not fire form submission...
Here i made a demo...
Works Fine (Normal Form)
http://yasinergul.com/stackoverflow/ie8-enter-key-bug/one.html
Works Fine (Form hidden & set back visible but it's with one text input)
http://yasinergul.com/stackoverflow/ie8-enter-key-bug/two.html
Does Not Work (Form hidden & set back visible but it's with two text input)
http://yasinergul.com/stackoverflow/ie8-enter-key-bug/three.html
i think the best approach is to give a .hidden class to the object but not setting display:none for this css selector. you can make it hidden with jquery like
$(".hidden").hide();
as the page loads the form is shown for miliseconds but gets hidden after jquery works...
I can't say if it is a bug exactly, but I can confirm that the behavior you report has changed in IE 8... and I imagine it is probably a bug, not an deliberate change.
If the form is set with CSS display:none the default submit button behavior doesn't work.
Other browsers, including IE 7 (or even IE 8 using IE 7 standard compatibility mode) do not have problems.
I've worked around the problem myself by just using height:0px; in the CSS, then having javascript set the appropriate height when I want to show the form. Using height instead, the default enter key submit behavior seems to work normally.
Old ticket, but I'd like to add what I think is the explanation:
IE8 does the following peculiar thing: the Enter key will submit the form, but any
<input type="submit" name="MySubmitButton" value="I hope I detect THIS VALUE in POST" />
won't be sent in the POST.
IE9 changes the behavior and sends the value. Chrome has always sent the value, as far as my tests have shown.
I hope this helps...
For any future users stumbling upon this question:
What worked for me was adding a DOCTYPE:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
A fix to what #Jitendra Pancholi suggested- now it submits only the form we want, not all of them
$("form input").keypress(function (e) {
if(e.which === 13) {
$(this.form).submit();
}
});
I tried it in IE8 and it works for me. You have to make sure that part of the form has focus though.
Javascript has a focus function that you can use to set the focus if that's what you need.
var textbox = document.getElementById("whatever name input box's id will be");
if(textbox) textbox.focus();
You may want to add a onkeyup event to your input boxes so that if you hit an enter in the input box then it will also submit.
As CodePartizan mentioned, you need the focus on the button otherwise, so if you tab over to the button, or click on it, it seems to work for me also.
I believe Yasin has got the point.
I just had the same problem: multiple text fields within a form whose visibility is "hidden".
My workaround (to prevent the form from flashing) is to set the form opacity to 0 in the css, and then customise its style settings with jQuery on document ready.
I believe this is not something to fix with JS.
Yeah, I was bitten by this bug too today. I found this workaround, though (diff from the OP):
<script type="text/javascript">
onload = function() {
document.getElementById('test').style.display = 'block';
+ document.getElementById('test').innerHTML =
+ document.getElementById('test').innerHTML;
}
</script>
</head>
Simply recreate the contents of the form from the contents of itself. Yikes. But it works. (Famous last words...)
This works for me in IE8. I had this problem when using only one input field.
Read more: http://www.rachaelarnold.com/dev/archive/enter-key-form-submission-bug#ixzz2Y5Zwgj2k
I had the same issue with ie and none of the solutions helped until I read this:
http://www.rachaelarnold.com/dev/archive/enter-key-form-submission-bug#ixzz2Y5Zwgj2k
my form only had one input field....duh! :)
Found a working solution.
Make the submit button invisible instead of using display:none;
input#submit {
color: transparent;
background: transparent;
border: 0px;
}