Hi Spike,
that's not a bad idea, I'll switch the system to do that instead.
Unfortunately however it doesn't change this behaviour - it happens
the same way whether I use forms[0], the formname or getElementById
:(
Toby
Friday, October 3, 2003, 12:17:33 PM, you wrote:
S> AFAIK getElementById() works in pretty much every browser.
S> Is there any reason you couldn't have a default value for the ID
S> attribute of the form tag.
S> That way you could keep the generic system and hopefully fix the problem
S> you are having
S> Spike
S> Toby Tremayne wrote:
>> Hi Spike,
>>
>> Well the links in question are generated by a tag which is part of
>> the wizards system I use, so it's built to be generic. In wizards
>> that aren't step-aware it uses forms[0], otherwise you pass it
>> attributes.formName and it uses that. BTW - does getElementByID
>> work in nutscrape / mozilla etc as well as IE?
>>
>> cheers,
>> Toby
>>
>> Friday, October 3, 2003, 12:05:55 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> S> Just out of curiosity...
>>
>> S> Is there a reason you are using the document.forms[0] syntax instead of
>> S> document.getElementById('foo')?
>>
>> S> I would have thought the second option would be more robust if you
>> S> change the layout of the page.
>>
>> S> Have you tried the second option?
>>
>> S> Sjpike
>>
>> S> Toby Tremayne wrote:
>>
>>>>done that too! the same thing happens on forms that don't have an
>>>>onSubmit handler at all.... <bangs head against growing dent in the
>>>>desk>
>>>>
>>>>Friday, October 3, 2003, 11:54:21 AM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>TF> ........Remove the onSubmit="return checkClientInfo();" from the form and see
>>>>what happens then.
>>>>
>>>>TF> If it does submit at least you know where the problem lies.
>>>>
>>>>TF> -----Original Message-----
>>>>TF> From: Toby Tremayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>TF> Sent: Friday, 3 October 2003 11:58 AM
>>>>TF> To: CFAussie Mailing List
>>>>TF> Subject: [cfaussie] RE: OT: javascript weirdness
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>TF> Hi Steve,
>>>>
>>>>TF> hehe already tried all of that - after so much to and fro'ing I forgot
>>>>TF> you didn't need the "javascript:" in the onClick handler - but
>>>>TF> surprisingly it works either way. However no matter which way I do
>>>>TF> it, including trying the function you mentioned below, the results are
>>>>TF> the same as in my first post. Incidentally, this behaviour is exaclty
>>>>TF> the same for link where the onClick handler is only one command - like
>>>>TF> this:
>>>>
>>>>TF> onClick="document.forms[0].submit();"
>>>>
>>>>TF> grrrr!
>>>>
>>>>TF> cheers,
>>>>TF> Toby
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>SO>> You dont use javascript: with onclick, for what ever it is. Same goes with
>>>>SO>> onMouseout, onMouseover and all the "on" methids of html elements
>>>>
>>>>SO>> your form is correct
>>>>
>>>>SO>> <form name="clientInfoForm" ..... onSubmit="return checkClientInfo();">
>>>>
>>>>SO>> but your buttons wont work. You A tage need to look like this
>>>>
>>>>SO>> <a href="javascript:;"
>>>>SO>> onClick="document.forms[0].fuseaction='blah';document.forms[0].submit();">Ne
>>>>SO>> xt</a>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>SO>> cause you cant call js calls straight form the href, you could put it all in
>>>>SO>> a function
>>>>
>>>>SO>> <script>
>>>>SO>> function setFuseAction(fuseAction)
>>>>SO>> {
>>>>SO>> document.forms[0].fuseaction=fuseAction;
>>>>SO>> document.forms[0].submit();
>>>>SO>> }
>>>>SO>> </script>
>>>>
>>>>SO>> <a href="javascript:setFuseAction('bla');" onclick="return false;">Next</a>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>SO>> Regards
>>>>SO>> Steve Onnis
>>>>
>>>>SO>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>SO>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>SO>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Toby
>>>>SO>> Tremayne
>>>>SO>> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:20 AM
>>>>SO>> To: CFAussie Mailing List
>>>>SO>> Subject: [cfaussie] RE: OT: javascript weirdness
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>SO>> yeah the form has an action, name and method (I just used ...) to
>>>>SO>> avoid putting the whole lot in there ) - so it looks like this:
>>>>
>>>>SO>> <form name="clientInfoForm" action="blah.cfm" method="post"
>>>>SO>> onSubmit="return checkClientInfo();">
>>>>
>>>>SO>> Friday, October 3, 2003, 11:01:57 AM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>WS>>> Does your <form> have an action?
>>>>
>>>>TF>>>>> <form name="clientInfoForm" ..... onSubmit="return
>>>>TF>>>>> checkClientInfo();">
>>>>
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