On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 15:55, code_bloke <alastair.yo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe I missing something here but I'm getting unexpected results > observing the submit of a form. > > Given form and script below I would have expected that the form would > not submit and the alert to be displayed, regardless of the means of > causing the submit. > > What I find is that: > 1: pressing return in the text box causes the alert, but does not > stop the submit > 2: the <button> does exactly the same > 3: the <input type="button"> is not detected. No alert. Form submits > 4: the Plain old submit button alerts AND stops the submission. > > Where am I going wrong?? I think you need to return false in order to stop the normal submit. It's not enough to do Event.stop(myEvent). The function needs to return false also. -- Bertil Wennergren -- 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.