One way to stop form submission is to return false from your JavaScript function. When the submit button is clicked, a validation function is called. I have a case in form validation. If that condition is met I call a function named returnToPreviousPage(); I am using JavaScript and Dojo Toolkit. Rather going back to the previous page, it submits the
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Deactivating and activating an E-mail form
I’m trying to get the code below to keep an E-mail form deactivated until 6 seconds after the page is fully loaded. What can I do to make it work like that? Answer It is not a good idea to hard code the duration. Instead you should call the activate using asynchronous call. Anyways, here is the working code.
Warn user before leaving web page with unsaved changes
I have some pages with forms in my application. How can I secure the form in such a way that if someone navigates away or closes the browser tab, they should be prompted to to confirm they really want to leave the form with unsaved data? Answer Short, wrong answer: You can do this by handling the beforeunload event and
Problems dynamically adding to form (trying to use onChange and appendTo)
I want my form to extend in different ways depending on the selection of a drop down box. I have got my JavaScript working so that onchanging my selection it will carry out something. But I am trying to use the appendTo() method as I have used before; for adding a single input, to work for implementing a div and
How to submit form only once after multiple clicking on submit?
I am having problem that when i am trying to submit the form by clicking on the submit button it takes some time to post request during this if i am again click on the Submit button it will again send the all parameters and parametrs get saved twice, thrice ….so on. I don’t know how to limit the the
Javascript to Select Multiple options [closed]
Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 1 year ago. Improve this question I have a form with a select box that allows multiple options. After a user saves these options, it stores
HTML form with two submit buttons and two “target” attributes
I have one HTML <form>. The form has only one action=”” attribute. However I wish to have two different target=”” attributes, depending on which button you click to submit the form. This is probably some fancy JavaScript code, but I haven’t an idea where to begin. How could I create two buttons, each submitting the same form, but each button
Detect which form input has focus using JavaScript or jQuery
How do you detect which form input has focus using JavaScript or jQuery? From within a function I want to be able to determine which form input has focus. I’d like to be able to do this in straight JavaScript and/or jQuery. Answer I am not sure if this is the most efficient way, but you could try: