[OT] Question on javascript

Sat May 28 11:34:23 PDT 2005

Steve,

this works for me (I changed your button into a submit, and note the
return statement in the onsubmit of the form):

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Submit Test</title>

<script type="text/javascript">

     function nosubmit()
     {
         alert('nosubmit');
         return false;
     }

</script>

</head>
<body>
<form onsubmit="return nosubmit();">
     Location: <input type="text" name="address" size="40">
     <input type="submit" value="Go" onclick="alert('hello')">
</form>
</body>

</html>

Best regards,
Bart

On Sat, 28 May 2005 20:15:22 +0200, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at SWOODBRIDGE.COM> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is a little of topic, but it is related to building a web interface
> for mapserver.
>
> I have form in html that I do NOT want to submit.
>
> http://swoodbridge.com/~woodbri/t.html
>
> enter text in location and hit [enter], the form starts a submit and
> calls nosubmit() which puts up an alert and then return false; which
> should cancel the submit. But it does the submit anyway :(
>
> This is really annoying because I figure I'm doing something stupid, but
> I just don't see it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>    -Steve W.
>
> the html is:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Submit Test</title>
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
>
>      function nosubmit()
>      {
>          alert('nosubmit');
>          return false;
>      }
>
> </script>
>
> </head>
> <body>
> <form onsubmit="nosubmit();">
>      Location: <input type="text" name="address" size="40">
>      <input type="button" value="Go" onclick="alert('hello')">
> </form>
> </body>
>
> </html>
>


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