[kei]

[first i would like to apologize for making so many topics an soon after answering them myself]

So, i have a submit button that submits a form, the page it action=""'s to checks what button was pressed and does said function. the problem is, i need to run a validate() (JS) function when the button is pressed and only submit if the function returns successful.
if i put:

<input type="submit" name="signup" value="signup" onClick="validate()"/>

validate will run BUT the form will also be submitted anyways.
if i put:

<input type="button" name="signup" value="signup" onClick="validate()"/>

[p.s. "document.formname.submit();" is in the JS function]
in this case validate() will work and submit the form, BUT the action page does not see the button name eg. "if ($_POST["signup"] == 'signup')"
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Vaporizer

[flips22738]

I do it something like this.

<form id="signUpForm" method="post" action="handleFormSubmission.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
-- form elements here --
<input type="button" value="signup" onclick="javascript:validate()"/>
</form>

Then the validate function looks something like this:

function validateForm()
{
	with(document.forms[0])
	{
		if(elements[1].value=="something_good");
		{
			submit();
		}
		else
		{
			elements[1].select();
		}
	}
}

Hope this helps.

[kei]

no.

i have a submit button that submits a form, the page it action=""'s to checks what button was pressed and does said function.

in this case validate() will work and submit the form, BUT the action page does not see the button name eg. "if ($_POST["signup"] == 'signup')"

[i actually fixed this a long time ago though, so, no need to help =D]
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Wellbutrin Side Effect