HTML form submission in Opera
The HTML form shown below does not work in Opera (version: 9.52). The form has no onsubmit attribute and no input element with type = submit. It just has two type = button input elements and both of them onclick call the js method where I want the user to confirm the view. If I remove the confirm () call it works fine. And in all other browsers (FF2, FF3, IE7) it works fine.
Any pointers?
<script type = "text/javascript">
function userSubmit(submitStatus)
{
// Omitted code that uses the parameter 'submitStatus' for brevity
if(confirm('Are you sure you want to submit?'))
document.qpaper.pStatus.value = something;
else
return;
document.qpaper.submit();
}
</script>
<form name = "qpaper" method = "post" action = "evaluate.page">
<input name = "inp1" type = "button" value = "Do This" class = "formbutton" onClick = "userSubmit(false)">
<input name = "inp2" type = "button" value = "Do That" class = "formbutton" onClick = "userSubmit(true)">
</form>
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Never use
document.nameofsomething
. This is a legacy technique that has mixed support in 21st century browsers. For forms usedocument.forms.nameofform
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Don't use onclick on buttons unless you need Javascript to behave differently depending on which button was clicked. If you just want to validate a form or confirm a submission, use instead
<form onsubmit>
.<form onsubmit="return confirm('Sure?')">
And so you don't even need to
form.submit()
. If it<form onsubmit>
returns false, the feed will be aborted. -
You don't even need to find this form.
In the form<button onclick>
will bethis.form
.
The form<form onsubmit>
will be in a variablethis
.
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