I have never seen this, have no idea what is going on:
<form action="/cgi-bin/Lib.exe" method=POST name="slider" ID="Form2">
<input type="text" name="user" value="" ID="Text1">
<input type="text" name="end" value="" ID="Text2">
</form>
function setval()
{
alert(s.getValue());
alert(s2.getValue());
document.slider.user.value = s.getValue();//set value of hidden text box to value of slider
document.slider.end.value = s2.getValue();//set value of hidden text box to value of slider
document.slider.submit();
}
When submitting form from setval(), when I change the name of the first input box from "user" to anything else, my cgi application won't except it and I get an error? I can change the name of the secons input box to anyting and it doesn't seem to have any problem? Confused. Thanks!
Seems more like it's a problem with the cgi than it is with the HTML/Javascript, to me. It probably makes the assumption that a value for "user" will always be sent. Not much else I can tell you without seeing the form-processing code.
Your CGI must be expecting an element called 'user'. You would need to check the source.
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How do I prevent a form from suggesting auto-complete values, from previous entries or from saved information in Edge?
In the above image, the email input field is marked as autocomplete="false", but still in the right pane you can see the suggestion is populating.
When I add autocomplete=disabled to one field it seems it work, but when I add the attribute to all the inputs, it again starts displaying suggestions for every field.
What is the solution for this?
Add the aria-autocomplete="list" attribute to the input.
<input type="text" id="FirstName" name="attr1" aria-autocomplete="list">
Do not use any other value for the attribute.
According to your description, I reproduced the problem. I think your issue is caused by the "Save and fill personal info" setting being enabled in Edge.
If you navigate to edge://settings/personalinfo and disable this feature, you can see this behavior no longer exists.
Or you can also click the "Manage personal info" option in the picture you provided, and then disable it.
I did some simple tests and found that if you need to solve the problem from the code, you need to modify the name attribute of the form's related field.
Like this（do not use attribute values like name or email... and maybe there are others I am not aware of):
<label for="attr1">attr1:</label>
<input type="text" id="FirstName" name="attr1">
<label for="attr2">attr2 :</label>
<input type="text" id="LastName" name="attr2">
<label for="attr3">attr3 :</label>
<input type="email" id="Email" name="attr3" autocomplete="off">
<input type="submit">
I don't recommend this, because good naming helps you understand and maintain the code. Using proper attributes like name and email also helps your code be more accessible for screen readers or other assistive technology.
I have made a form in HTML everything must work very well but there is sth very strange about it. when I check the form on a browser I see my inputs have default values. the values I haven't give them.
"creator" for text input and ***** for password input. I don't know why it's happening I just noticed it happens when I set my password type input equal to 'password' if I change it to text everything will be fine.
this is my form
<form class="form-group">
<input type='text' class='form-control' id='user_email' placeholder="username..." Required /><br>
<input type='password' class='form-control' id='user_PassEnter' placeholder="password..." Required /><br>
</form>
I also should mention the values change when I use other browsers. for example on Chrome the text input value became ajax.
You can solve this by either:
Disabling autocomplete using <form class = "form-group" autocomplete="off">
2.Remove data from your auto-fill in the settings of your browser.
Each browser has their own way of doing it, which you can find by a simple internet search.
I Understand the ins and outs of forms, but say for example I have the following code:
<form method="post" action="urltoserver">
<input type="checkbox" name="mycheckbox" value="1">Question</input>
</form>
Here I have set a value for the $_POST array. However, if I simply want to know if the checkbox is selected or not (ie im not bothered about the returned value), is it feasible/common practice to leave off the value attribute all together? Would it just return true/false in this case?
I'm assuming PHP since you mentioned $_POST; correct me if I'm wrong.
if a checkbox is checked (and there is no value assigned) you should (IIRC) receive an on value back (as unchecked boxes aren't sent with the request). So, if you had:
<form method="POST">
<input type="checkbox" name="foo" /> Foo
<input type="checkbox" name="bar" checked="checked"/> Bar
<input type="checkbox" name="baz" checked="checked"/> Baz
</form>
You'd see:
isset($_POST['foo']) == false
isset($_POST['bar']) == true
isset($_POST['baz']) == true
on the server-side when you went to read the check state.
the easiest thing to do though, if you're learning, is submit it to a page with the following code:
<?php
var_dump($_REQUEST);
That will show you, verbatim, what was submitted (based on the form's populated values). From there you can play with how you want to format the form to receive the values you're expecting.
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'm having a bit of a weird situation here. I have a form that submits using the GET method for a search function. On the subsequent page after a search, all the variables are displayed in the URL even if they are empty. For example if I make a search for movie title equaling "hello," I'll get this:
/GetResults?title=hello&year=&director=&firstname=&lastname=
Is this normal or am I doing something wrong? Here is the form I am using:
<form action="/FabFlix/servlet/GetResults" id="search-form" method="get" accept-charset="utf-8">
<p>Movie Title:</p><input type="text" name="title"/>
<br/>
<p>Year:</p><input type="text" name="year"/>
<br/>
<p>Director:</p><input type="text" name="director"/>
<br/>
<p>Star's First Name:</p><input type="text" name="firstname"/>
<br/>
<p>Star's Last Name:</p><input type="text" name="lastname"/>
<br/>
<br/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
This is normal. To prevent this behavior, consider an onsubmit handler on your form which assembles the URL manually and redirects. If you do this, don't forget to test this with javascript both enabled and disabled to make sure both scenarios still work OK.
I believe that's normal operation for GET. Do you have to use GET instead of POST?
It seems that a relatively simple change to get the variables from not displaying in the URL is to use the POST method instead of GET.