during validation of the checkbox in chrome browser, when I click submit of the form,
tooltip/bubble message is not showned right away but after moving mouse on checkbox or leaving sumbit button...
<form ... onsubmit="return checkForm(this);">
...
<p><input type="checkbox" required name="terms"> I accept the <u>Terms and Conditions</u></p>
<p><input type="submit"></p>
</form>
jsfiddle:
example number 2 here
Can someone explain me what its happening, how to solve it?
On opera its tottally fine for example...
Thanks
You need to remove the example ... dots, and provide function checkForm(form) in between <script></script> tags that actually runs the javascript code to check it.
Here is a working example: https://jsfiddle.net/gejsf0x6/
Related
I've been using HTML5's button form attribute to have my submit button show up outside of the form and still trigger my submit.
My form looks something like this:
<article>
<header>This is my form</header>
<section>
<p>Something explaining what is happening on this form.</p>
<form id="myform" action="/submit" name="myform">
<input type="text" name="thing">
</form>
</section>
<footer>
<button type="submit" form="myform">Submit</button>
</footer>
</article>
I have this working fine in Chrome/Firefox/Safari, but I went to test it in IE10 today and the form doesn't submit!
Besides redesigning all of my pages to not use the form= attribute, does anyone know how to get around this? I want it to work like a normal submit button inside a form, where hitting enter in the text field will submit the form as well as clicking the button.
I'd like to avoid adding click events and listening for enter on text fields to trigger the submit in JavaScript if possible.
It seems the attribute form="myForm" is not supported on IE.
View the table here for more info:
http://caniuse.com/#search=Form%20features
The only way to replicate this will be to use/create a javascript polyfill to replicate the desired behaviour.
You can find a list of cross-browser polyfills here:
https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-Browser-Polyfills
I couldn't find one to fill the form behaviour (but only looked for a min, so check yourself).
I think you will have to write your own custom polyfill for this.
A simple inline onclick would look like this:
<button
type="submit"
form="myform"
onclick="javascript:getElementById(this.getAttribute('form')).submit();"
>Submit</button>
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/mf63k/4/
I have a login script based on PHP and Javascript. I couldn't figure out for the longest time why it would work in chrome and safari but not in firefox or internet explorer. I finally figured out the issue is with the html, instead of having the regular submit button I have an image for submit. and simply changing type="image" to type="submit" resolves the issue. Does anyone know why this is and if there's a compatible way to write the following
This works:
<input name="doLogin" type="submit" style="margin-left:90px;" id="doLogin3" value="Login">
This does not:
<input name="doLogin" type="image" src="login-btn.png" style="margin-left:90px;" id="doLogin3" value="Login">
if you are not going to be using js to submit your form, then the input type for your submit button should be submit. but if you really must have an image in place of your button, just position the image with css by setting it as the background of your button. no need to change input type to image. hope that helps.
I have a form with <input type="submit">. In Chrome submit doesn't do anything. On a Network tab in developer tools I see nothing. No errors in developer tools either. Meanwhile, if I do save a page and open a saved page, then after I press submit button, I see something appears in Network tab. This happens in Chrome and Firefox. This works as expected in IE.
Does anybody have a hindsight, what should I look at?
I don't need a direct answer, I only need to know, where should I look at. If someone posts a direction and that'll help me to solve my problem, I'll accept it as a correct answer.
Structure of a page looks like this:
html
head
body
div
div
form
form
form
form
form
input
input
table
table
tbody
tr..td..input type=submit
If you are not using any JavaScript for form validation then a simple layout for your form would look like this:
<form action="formHandler.php" method="post">
<input name="fname" id="fname" type="text" value="example" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
You need to ensure you have the submit button within the form element and an appropriate action attribute on the form element is present.
For a more direct answer, provide the code you are working with.
You may find the following of use: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html
Are you using HTML5? If so, check whether you have any <input type="hidden"> in your form with the property required. Remove that required property. Internet Explorer won't take this property, so it works but Chrome will.
I faced this problem today, and the issue was I was preventing event default action in document onclick:
document.onclick = function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
}
Document onclick usually is used for event delegation but it's wrong to prevent default for every event, you must do it only for required elements:
document.onclick = function(e) {
if (e.target instanceof HTMLAnchorElement) e.preventDefault();
}
Hello from the future.
For clarity, I just wanted to add (as this was pretty high up in google) - we can now use
<button type="submit">Upload Stuff</button>
And to reset a form
<button type="reset" value="Reset">Reset</button>
Check out button types
We can also attach buttons to submit forms like this:
<button type="submit" form="myform" value="Submit">Submit</button>
Check if you are using any sort of jquery/javascript validation on the page and try disabling it and see what happens. You can use your browser's developer tools to see if any javascript file with validate or validation is being loaded. You can also look for hidden form elements (ie. style set to display:none; or something like that) and make sure there isn't a hidden validation error on those that's not being rendered.
I ran into this on a friend's HTML code and in his case, he was missing quotes.
For example:
<form action="formHandler.php" name="yourForm" id="theForm" method="post">
<input type="text" name="fname" id="fname" style="width:90;font-size:10>
<input type="submit" value="submit"/>
</form>
In this example, a missing quote on the input text fname will simply render the submit button un-usable and the form will not submit.
Of course, this is a bad example because I should be using CSS in the first place ;) but anyways, check all your single and double quotes to see that they are closing properly.
Also, if you have any tags like center, move them out of the form.
<form action="formHandler.php" name="yourForm" id="theForm" method="post">
<center> <-- bad
As strange it may seems, it can have an impact.
You can't have a form element as a child (directly or indirectly) of another form element.
If the following does not return null then you need to remove the excess form elements:
document.querySelectorAll('form form');//Must return null to be valid.
check your form is outside the table
I was looking for a fix to stop IE refreshing the page instead of submitting my single line form, when a user hits enter instead of clicking go.
I found this solution, which works well, but I was wondering if anyone could explain why it works?
The solution I used is to add a hidden text input within the form tags, like this
`<form name="SearchForm" id="SearchForm" method="get" action="">
/*This is the hidden text input*/
<input type="text" style="visibility:hidden;display:none;" name="ieSearchEnter">
</input>
<fieldset>
<span><input type="text" name="Search" id="Search"/></span>
<div class="field actions">
<input type="submit" name="Go" id="Go" class="submit" value="Go"/>
</div>
</fieldset>
</form>`
which i found here.
Thanks!
Are you really setting the ACTION value to an empty string, or did you just do that for your code sample?
I don't think IE is really "refreshing the page"-- I think it's automatically submitting your form.
Here's a simple test page: http://www.enhanceie.com/sandbox/simpleform.asp. When you hit enter, you'll see that the URL is updated to pass the user's value.
IIRC, there is code in IE's form-handling that says that if you have form containing a single test field, then hitting ENTER will submit that form. In your workaround, you've added an additional text field so that optimization is not applied.
I think maybe your server-side code is REQUIRING that the form submission contains "Go=Go" or it ignores the submitted value (Search=Whatevertheuserhadtyped) and simply re-displays the form. If you change the server-side script such that it does not require Go=Go, then your problem should go away.
I came upon a revelation the other day. When attempting to create a submit button by using an image, I ran into a problem where the image was not displayed but the value text was. At the time, this is not what I wanted, but now, as I look back, I see some potential use for this.
If you need to send data to another page, but none of it requires user input, you can either send it in the link (or form) via GET or through a form via POST. The problem is that the former creates ugly URLs and the latter requires a submit button that looks out of place. Of course, I could come up with an image, but what if I just wanted selectable text.
So, I started playing around a bit and Firefox appears to render the following how I desire, as a clickable link that submits a form. All you have to do is remove the src attribute from the input type='image' tag:
<form action='some_page' method='post'>
<input type='hidden' name='email_address' value='test#test.com' />
<input type='image' value='E-mail User' />
</form>
Does this solution work on other browsers? What are the downsides to doing this (aside from the obvious fact that your link CSS isn't applied properly)?
There's no need to use an image input, why not just use a regular submit button and apply some heavy-handed styling to make it look like regular text?
<input type="submit" value="E-mail User" class="link">
<style>
input.link {
border: none;
background: none;
cursor: pointer;
/* etc */
}
</style>
I like a solution that uses an actual link (hidden) that gets exposed via javascript in conjunction with a button inside a noscript tag.
<form action="some_page" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="email_address" value="test#test.com" />
E-mail User
<noscript>
<input type="submit" value="E-mail User" />
</noscript>
</form>
$('submit-link').click( function() {
$(this).closest('form').submit();
return false;
})
.show();
Using HTML 4.01 Strict it worked on FF3.5, but not on IE8 or Chrome. The link works, but there is no text just a blank spot for a missing image.
So, this would appear to be a bad idea, since it may only work on one browser. To me that is a pretty big downside, unless your only market is for Firefox browsers, then, go ahead, great idea. :)
As James Skidmore suggested, it is easy to do an onclick with javascript to submit it as a post.
I would suggest unobtrusive JS, so, if someone doesn't have JS on then it will work as a link, doing a GET submission, but if they have JS then it would change the behavior to be POST with no ugly url change.
Or, as was mentioned the background of the image can blend in with the form background.
You could instead submit the form dynamically via JS, or use a regular submit button with a transparent or white background.