Comments on: JavaScript onSubmit Handler

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:09:43 +0000

After banging my head against the wall for an hour I found your most helpful post! Now I’m a happy chappy again THANKS!!!

By: JD

JD — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:37:59 +0000

Alex, just wanted to say thanks for the post, it was exactly what I needed.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:21:03 +0000

Thanks, Alex.

Other people gave solutions to this problem that didn’t work.

Change the “Submit” button to a “Text” button, and make the validation do the submit. Brilliant. It’s the only thing that worked for me.

By: Jere

Jere — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:47:46 +0000

ok, one more time…
Sorry.

By: Benjamin Kamp

Benjamin Kamp — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:26:51 +0000

Anybody else feel like they are having a one sided conversation with Javascript? Could it just talk back a little… “oh, you were sorta close that time, keep trying buddy!”… Thanks for pointing me in the right direction on this one!

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:57:14 +0000

Gee, thanks. Just when I needed it most. I will also try to find some other work around and I will share it as soon as I find one. Thanks. Hehe

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Mario — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:53:59 +0000

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By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:54:03 +0000

Since upgrading to IE7, my js validations weren’t working. This article helped me fix it.

I put the validation on the onclick event of the submit button, rather than using onsubmit in the form tag.

By: OrbZ

OrbZ — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:03:32 +0000

Thank you! It helped me a lot… i was starting to have a headache! ^_^

By: Roderick Smith

Roderick Smith — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:36:30 +0000

GREAT ARTICLE, saved me a lot of time… thank you dude

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 31 May 2006 22:04:45 +0000

Ah-HA! This was what was tripping me up all afternoon…Thank you so much for this, it’s been really useful

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By: Guillermo Rauch

Guillermo Rauch — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:24:10 +0000

Alex, I don’t think this is the cleanest of ways to work this problem out.

It’s been said here that events are designed to work with user interaction. That’s true, but they’re functions, and you can call them to check if the form validates.

So once you have your onsumit event defined, you can simply do this:

Click to submit

I tested this in Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer 6

Note:
The $ function is a shortcut to document.getElementById, provided by prototype. You can change it if you’re not working with that library.

By: Winston Murdock

Winston Murdock — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:19:15 +0000

Thanks. I’ve been trying to work on an onsubmit handler for a page where the submit button is an with an onclick action. I wish there were a way around this, but it’s good to know that this is built-in behavior and not something specific I was doing wrong.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:08:43 +0000

So what if you have a complicated form that has multiple items that cause post back using asp.net? It is a royal pain in the neck to have to use attachEvent to every item that can cause post back. Boy this is frustrating.