form not working in firefox

submits anyway

[susieone]

Hi I have a form that works well in IE, fields are checked for valid entries before submitting but in firefox it submits without checking.
sample code:

function submitForm(myForm) { //check all form fields are filled in, prompt user if not or invalid.

if(document.myForm.shipFirstName.value=="") {
alert("Please enter Your first Name.")
document.myForm.shipFirstName.focus()
return false
}

// and so on till return true at end.
then my on submit button is:

onsubmit="return submitForm(this)" now in firefox javascript console the error is.. submitForm not defined.

Help please.

[kaled]

Best guess... there's some invalid markup somewhere. Try

[validator.w3.org...]

Kaled.

[Rambo Tribble]

Only the form itself supports onsubmit. Place your handler in the form's opening tag, not in the button's tag.

[dcrombie]

You have two options:

<FORM ... onsubmit="return doStuff();">

or:

<INPUT type="submit" ... onclick="return doStuff();">

The former is better IMO as it also captures form-submits triggered by hitting Enter.

;)

[susieone]

Hi all
form working fine now it was a fault with my regular expression. thanks everyone.