submitting a page

I have the following:

<input type="image" src="images/submit.jpg" width="70" height="30"
border="0" onclick="validateRegister()" />

It is inside a form where:

<form action="register_submit.php" name="register" id="register"
method="post">

At the end of validateRegister() I have:

if (msg.length > 0) {
alert(msg);
} else {
document.register.submit();
}

after having built the msg based upon any errors. (It starts with
var msg = ''

What I am happening is that it alerts the message of all the errors
because msg.length > 0, but then it submits the page!!! Even if I
comment out the document.register.submit(), it still submits it.

How can it submit the page if not a single call is made to post and
there is not button for submit?

sheldonlg <sheldonlg> wrote in
news:ypmdnfVjedBd9K7VnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d (AT) giganews (DOT) com:

I have the following:

input type="image" src="images/submit.jpg" width="70" height="30"
border="0" onclick="validateRegister()" /

Remove the onclick on the image submit.

It is inside a form where:

form action="register_submit.php" name="register" id="register"
method="post"

Add onsubmit="return validateRegister();" to the form.

At the end of validateRegister() I have:

if (msg.length > 0) {
alert(msg);

add return false;

} else {
document.register.submit();

replace document.register.submit();
with return true;

}

after having built the msg based upon any errors. (It starts with
var msg = ''

What I am happening is that it alerts the message of all the errors
because msg.length > 0, but then it submits the page!!! Even if I
comment out the document.register.submit(), it still submits it.

Input type="image" is your submit button.

How can it submit the page if not a single call is made to post and
there is not button for submit?

Your submit button is the input image.

Javascript validation is only a courtesy to the user, do validate on the
server.

--
BootNic Tuesday May 20, 2008 8:35 PM
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you
will have to ram it down their throats.
*Howard Aiken*

BootNic wrote:

sheldonlg <sheldonlg> wrote in
news:ypmdnfVjedBd9K7VnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d (AT) giganews (DOT) com:

I have the following:

input type="image" src="images/submit.jpg" width="70" height="30"
border="0" onclick="validateRegister()" /

Remove the onclick on the image submit.

It is inside a form where:

form action="register_submit.php" name="register" id="register"
method="post"

Add onsubmit="return validateRegister();" to the form.

At the end of validateRegister() I have:

if (msg.length > 0) {
alert(msg);

add return false;

} else {
document.register.submit();

replace document.register.submit();
with return true;

}

after having built the msg based upon any errors. (It starts with
var msg = ''

What I am happening is that it alerts the message of all the errors
because msg.length > 0, but then it submits the page!!! Even if I
comment out the document.register.submit(), it still submits it.

Input type="image" is your submit button.

Thanks.

How can it submit the page if not a single call is made to post and
there is not button for submit?

Your submit button is the input image.

Uh, no, not the way I had it coded. All it is is a button that invokes
a javascript. It knows nothing about submitting.

Javascript validation is only a courtesy to the user, do validate on the
server.

BootNic wrote:

sheldonlg <sheldonlg> wrote in
news:ypmdnfVjedBd9K7VnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d (AT) giganews (DOT) com:

I have the following:

input type="image" src="images/submit.jpg" width="70" height="30"
border="0" onclick="validateRegister()" /

Remove the onclick on the image submit.

It is inside a form where:

form action="register_submit.php" name="register" id="register"
method="post"

Add onsubmit="return validateRegister();" to the form.

At the end of validateRegister() I have:

if (msg.length > 0) {
alert(msg);

add return false;

} else {
document.register.submit();

replace document.register.submit();
with return true;

That worked. Thanks.