There is no exception or error thrown in firebug !! I went round it with an inline call instead !
Thanks for help guys Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Foster" <mattfoste...@gmail.com> To: "Prototype & script.aculo.us" <prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:26 PM Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: Stopping events .. Event.stop(e) does indeed prevent event propagation. I would assume that your code is hitting an exception before Event.stop is being executed. > Try calling Event.stop() at the very beginning of the script, before > anything else, then if there are no errors, call event.form.submit() > to carry on with the original submit event. @Walter: If you have a submit handler that executes the object's submit event wouldn't this lead to an infinite loop? Wouldn't the idea be, catch the submit event, validate the fields, if all is valid, allow the event to proceed, if its not then stop the event. function handleLoad(){ $("myForm").observe("submit", function(e){ var invalidArr = $("myForm").select("input.req, textarea.req, select.req").findAll(function(element){ return element.value != "" }); if(invalidArr.length > 0){ e.stop(); //prototype 1.6 code to event stop. handleInvalids(invalidArr ) } }); } Event.observe(window, "load", handleLoad); -- http://positionabsolute.net On Mar 18, 11:59 am, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote: > Try calling Event.stop() at the very beginning of the script, before > anything else, then if there are no errors, call event.form.submit() > to carry on with the original submit event. > > Walter > > On Mar 18, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Alex Mcauley wrote: > > > > > It still does not work with "Event.stop(event);" for some reason .... > > > i even tried changing the code to ..... > > > var error=''; > > $$('.req').each(function(e) { > > > if($(e).value=='') { > > error+='Required'; > > > } > > > }); > > if(error.length>=1) { > > alert(error) > > Event.stop(event); // does not work > > > } > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Alex Mcauley" <webmas...@thecarmarketplace.com> > > To: <prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:42 PM > > Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: Stopping events .. > > >> Doh !!!!!! i knew it was something simple !! > > >> Thanks > >> Alex > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Walter Lee Davis" <wa...@wdstudio.com> > >> To: <prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com> > >> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:11 PM > >> Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: Stopping events .. > > >>> Has to be capital E event: > > >>> Event.stop(event) > > >>> Walter > > >>> On Mar 18, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Jeztah wrote: > > >>>> event.stop(event); // doesnt stop the request from firing --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---