Subject: Validation & form submission

I have need for a page that lets me:
1. Fill out a form
2. Validate the entries using JavaScript
3. If valid, open a small window, then submit the form, with the
results flowing back to the small window.

I can specify the small window and the validation by writing:
<form .... name= testForm target="smallWindow" ... onsubmit="return
validation();"...>.
Then:
<script>
function validation() {
// validate entries, then;
smallWin=window.open"null","resultsWindow","height =300,width=
400,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,le ft=200,top=200");
....
testForm.submit();
}
</script>

This opens the window, but the reply comes back in another, full sized
window, not the small one.
If I submit the form first (testForm.submit(), the reply comes back
in a large window,
then the small window is opened. If I use a submit button, the reply
shows in the small window, but then validation is bypassed.

What is the solution?

Pat

Pat wrote:

I have need for a page that lets me:
1. Fill out a form
2. Validate the entries using JavaScript
3. If valid, open a small window, then submit the form, with the
results flowing back to the small window.

I can specify the small window and the validation by writing:
form .... name= testForm target="smallWindow" ... onsubmit="return
validation();"...>.
Then:
script
function validation() {
// validate entries, then;
smallWin=window.open"null","resultsWindow","height =300,width=
400,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,le ft=200,top=200");

You forogt the first parenthesis
...window.open("null"...
^

....
testForm.submit();
}
/script

This opens the window, but the reply comes back in another, full sized
window, not the small one.
If I submit the form first (testForm.submit(), the reply comes back
in a large window,
then the small window is opened. If I use a submit button, the reply
shows in the small window, but then validation is bypassed.

What is the solution?

Pat

I'm not sure if I'm following.
After
testForm.submit()
can't you just have a

smallWin.location="PageThatOpens.html"

And then let the parent window handle the submission. Is that what you
wanted?