form-submit

html form button vs input type="submit" vs this.submit()?

What is the proper standards compliant semantic way to have a submit button on a form? I don't need images or backgrounds in the buttons, just simple text, maybe a gradient background with curved corners (using CSS3). These are the ways I know of: <input type="submit" value="click here"/> <button>click here</button> <span class="but...

tab and enter hit different submit button in html form (all browsers)

Hi I have an issue that appears in all browsers. I am working with ASP.NET MVC. My controller renders an html form with various submit buttons (the reason for this is explained in the Addendum below). Whilst tabbing sends the focus to the right submit button under the right circumstances, hitting enter seems to submit the form usin...

javascript confirm asp.net button never submits?

Hi All, i have a regular asp:button. I am working in .Net 3.5. I've tried adding a js confirm to the button with the OnClientClick attribute as well as adding in code-behind and the result is the same. No matter what the user clicks in the confirm pop-up the form will not submit?? BtnDeleteSelected.Attributes.Add("onclick", "return con...

dynamically added form field didn't post when form submitted

Hi All, I have a problem with dynamically appended form elements. I have used this code to append form elements $('#wrap_range_'+id).append("<div style='clear:both; margin:0;'></div> <select name='range_"+id+"[]'> <option value=''>-- Select range --</option> <?php for($cnt=10; $cnt<500; $cnt+=10) { echo '<option val...

Adding dynamic parameters with Html.BeginForm and jQuery submit

// html <% using (Html.BeginForm("MyAction", "MyController", new { id = ViewContext.RouteData.Values["id"] }, FormMethod.Post, new { enctype = "multipart/form-data", class="myForm" })) { %> <input type="file" name="blah" /> <% } %> // script $container.find('.myButton')....

How to submit web forms using Python?

First of all, sorry if this question is a little vague and rambling! I'm ok with Python, but I've never done anything HTTP related before. I'm trying to automate submitting a web form, and from reading some of this page I understand that I need to do a POST request. I also found a code snippet demonstrating the urllib module: import u...

Submit button falling out of fieldset when using displayGroup in Zend Framework 1.10.8

I have tried all the combinations I can think off but this form: class Form_Login Extends Zend_Form{ public function init(){ $this->setMethod('post'); $email = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('email'); $emailValidator = new Zend_Validate_EmailAddress(); $emailValidator->setMessage('Please use a valid em...

Submit a form into a SimpleModal window.

Hello, is there a way of submit a form into a simplemodal? I mean, I want to do a 'preview your post' button that show a peview of the data entered in the original form in a simplemodal window. How can I do that? I know I can open a modal dialog and just insert the values to preview directly from the original form fields using jQuery, bu...

Submit Event Listener for a form

I've written an event listener for a form submit that is causing me a few issues. When pressing 'enter' inside the text field everything works fine. However, I have an span (with background-image) that submits the form as well via a click event. This is not working properly and I can't figure out why. Here's the basic HTML: <form name...

how to submit login form I have below, on clicking "enter" key as i fill up the credentials?

I have a login form as below, I have tried doing this by onkeydown event, but i need this to work only for enter key.. <form action="login.php" method="post" name="login"> <div class="login-form"> <ul> <li class="col1">E-mail Address</li> <li class="col2"><...

Need to press submit twice for submitting a form with ajax (jquery validation plugin)

The form is validated before submit with this plugin. And submitted as shown in the code: jQuery.validator.setDefaults({ submitHandler: function(){ jQuery("form").submit(function(e) { e.preventDefault(); jQuery.post(base_url + "blog/ajax_comment", { author: jQuery("#author").val(), email: jQuery("#email").v...

jQuery not posting all inputs of a form after the .append()

I have a form generated dynamically with the method .append() of jQuery. I can add any number of new input, textbox, cmbbox, etc... But the problem is that when I do the sumbit of the form, the PHP target does not receive the new input added, but just the vars connected to the input already in the form before the append(). Any ideas? ...

PHP help multi step form

Hi There, I am creating a multi-step form, and I am struggling to pass around the ID's to each step of the form, below is my code function add_career() { $data = array(); $this->load->model('admin_model'); $this->load->library('form_validation'); if($this->input->post('career_set') == 'Save') { $t...

ASP.NET MVC 2 - First submit button on site doesn't work - rest is fine!

Sorry for unclear title - I don't know how to describe that problem in one sentence. Code sample will make it clear. First UP button do nothing when clicked. Rest works like it should! Below my view: <%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Main.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<GeekClick.ViewMo...

ASP.Net MVC2 -- After posting, how to clear form if user hits Back button?

In my web app, after clicking the Submit button on an ASP.NET MVC form, the user is displayed either an Error screen or a Success screen. In the case of the Error, the user is instructed to click the Back button on the browser and fix whatever they didn't do right and try submitting again. This works fine because when the user clicks ba...

Underlining the text in an submit button (html, css)

Hello All, I'm (probably unwisely) attempting to style an input submit button to make it look like a regular hyperlink. Using css everything is fine, except for the underlining, which is not being rendered. Css: input.addemail { border: 0px; background-color: #1e2f45; text-decoration: underline; cursor: hand; cursor: poin...

jquery submit inside validation creates too much recursion

because the way jquery dialogs woks, when using a "confirm" dialog, you have to return false immediately, and if the user selects "Ok", then trigger the form submit. so, I'm using this code: function validoForm() { //some code here... if (datosTdcIncompletos==true) { var $dialogTDC= $('<div></div>'...

Action not running with CakePHP Js->submit()

I'm using CakePHP 1.3, and trying to make a simple message posting board with ajax. I'm trying to use the Js helper to submit a form on the index page, then refresh the message board's div to include the new message. This is all on a single page. I have previously posted on this, but I wanted to rephrase the question and include some u...

Is it possible to submit a form to a remote script with ajax?

Hello, i have have a form in site A and want to submit the form to a script located in site B. If i submit the form normally all works well. If i try something like the following all hell breaks loose (well actually, nothing really happens :D) $('#gs_vote_button').click(function(){ $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: 'htt...

Do cookies work when accessing a remote script with jsonp?

Hello, i use jsonp to post a form to a remote script. the code is something like this: $.ajax({ type: "get", datatype: "jsonp", url: 'http://other-domain.com/process_form.php?param1=x&' + $("#gs_vote_form").serialize(), data: $("#gs_vote_form").serialize(), success: function(data) { alert('form submitted successfully...