Submitting a form with a javascript

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4 total messages Started by Allen Brooker Sat, 08 Sep 2001 10:11

Author: Allen Brooker
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 10:11

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Hi all,

I need to know how to submit a form using a javascript.
Scenario:
I have a form. When the submit button is clicked I want it to call a 
javascript which checks that the necessary fields have been filled in, 
then submit the form using the 'post' method to a Perl CGI script. 

TIA
Allen

Re: Submitting a form with a javascript

Author: Greg Griffiths
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:10

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You have two choices :

1. Add a document.<form name>.submit() call at the end of your validation
2. add your validation as an onsubmit component of your Form.

Allen Brooker wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I need to know how to submit a form using a javascript.
> Scenario:
> I have a form. When the submit button is clicked I want it to call a
> javascript which checks that the necessary fields have been filled in,
> then submit the form using the 'post' method to a Perl CGI script.
>
> TIA
> Allen

Re: Submitting a form with a javascript

Author: Cranston Engles
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 02:11

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Allen,

Feel free to check out the code on my contact page:

http://www.rawconfusion.com/contact.htm

It will submit the form purely through javascript.

I hope that helps
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 11:11:22 +0100, Allen Brooker
<allen@brooker.gb.net> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I need to know how to submit a form using a javascript.
>Scenario:
>I have a form. When the submit button is clicked I want it to call a 
>javascript which checks that the necessary fields have been filled in, 
>then submit the form using the 'post' method to a Perl CGI script. 
>
>TIA
>Allen
>

Re: Submitting a form with a javascript

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Author: Hywel Jenkins
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:06

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In article <3bb52d85.2430945@news.mindspring.com>, never@ever.net 
says...
> Allen,
> 
> Feel free to check out the code on my contact page:
> 
> http://www.rawconfusion.com/contact.htm
> 
> It will submit the form purely through javascript.
> 
> I hope that helps
It doesn't work:
<form name="Mail" action="mailto:design@rawconfusion.com?
subject=RawConfusion Comments"

For starters, mailto: as a form action is unreliable - you'll never know 
whether the mail client even tried to send the message, whether it 
killed the user's browser or machine, or one of a variety of other 
problems.

Secondly, you've added the subject to the mailto URL.  That's bad - it's 
a malformed URL, and can result in lost mail, mail client freezing, etc.

Thirdly, you've mixed a GET querystring with a POST method.

Read this:
http://allmyfaqs.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Top-posting_or_bottom-posting

> On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 11:11:22 +0100, Allen Brooker
> <allen@brooker.gb.net> wrote:
> >I need to know how to submit a form using a javascript.
> >Scenario:
> >I have a form. When the submit button is clicked I want it to call a 
> >javascript which checks that the necessary fields have been filled in, 
> >then submit the form using the 'post' method to a Perl CGI script. 

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