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failure to fire onSubmit=.

onSubmit() never gets triggered. Why? syntax?

         

gene292

6:14 am on Oct 17, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



This perplexed me for a day now. I know I am blind and missing something stupid. Help?
Alert box never pops up and the action gets triggered. So onSubmit() never gets triggered. Why?

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<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>

<script type="text/javascript">

function submTest()
{
alert( "submit2" );
return( FALSE );
}

</script>

</head>

<body>
<form name="firstform" action="owner_report.php?lm_xcar=1" method="post">

<input type="submit" id="submitId" name="submitN" value="Summary" onSubmit="return submTest();">
</form>

</body>
</html>

Fotiman

12:53 pm on Oct 17, 2010 (gmt 0)

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onsubmit is an action of the <form> element, not the <input> element.

<form name="firstform" action="owner_report.php?lm_xcar=1" method="post" onsubmit="return submTest();">

<input type="submit" id="submitId" name="submitN" value="Summary">
</form>