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JavaScript method not working in HTML

So I have a button that calls the AllEntered() javascript method when it is clicked and as you can see in the final if/else, it should either got to submission.html or admin.html but instead of going to either of those it just reloads the current page that I am on. This is all inside a form by the way and its purpose is to check if all checkbox inputs are checked. Also the alert doesn't i put for loop-number doesn't generate either.
zbutton onclick="AllEntered()" class="myButton">Submit</button>
<script>
function AllEntered()
{
var ids = {"freshSoph", "participate", "respect", "leave", "illegal", "alcohol", "typeName"};
var loopNumber = 0;
for(var i = 0; i < ids.length - 1; i++)
{
if(document.getElementById(ids[i]).checked)
{
loopNumber++;
alert(loopNumber.value);
}
}
if(loopNumber = ids.length)
{
window.open("submission.html");
}
else
{
window.open("admin.html");
}
}
</script>

Open your browser developer tools. Read the error message.
You have a typo. An array is created with [], not {}.
(And of course it reloads the page, that is what clicking a submit button inside a form does).

In your form, below this button, add one more button as a hidden input of type submit like so:
<button hidden type="Submit">
Your problem could be caused by the fact that you are missing a submit type button.
When a form has no button of type Submit ( which on click will submit the form to its target or TO ITS SELF if no target is specified. This is what we call postback, as in posting back to your self ) it will use any buttons click as a submit event raiser.
By adding an actual submit button you remove this default behaviour, while also ensuring the user cant click on it, as the control is not active when its hidden.

JavaScript Form Validation Query

I've just wrote some validation code so as to check if either of my radio buttons from my web form have been selected before they are submitted. I've just starting learning php as I want to be able to store the value of each radio button in a .csv file.
Because I have my action attribute set to trigger a php script, I get my alert box, but as soon as I click OK after pressing submit the browser goes straight to the php script (inevitably).
Is there a way I can return to my initial index.html after the alert message?
I have not actually written any php as yet, so would this go in the php script or the javascript?
Heres my code so far:
$("#submit").on("click", function() {
var radio = $("input[type=radio][name=emotion]")[0].checked;
var radio2 = $("input[type=radio][name=emotion]")[1].checked;
var radio3 = $("input[type=radio][name=emotion]")[2].checked;
if(!radio && !radio2 && !radio3) {
alert("You must select at least one word!");
}
else {
alert("Please rate the next item!")
}
});

In Jquery you should use .submit() function to validate a form.
Then to avoid to submit the form you can use the function event.preventDefault()
And if you want to go to the index you can use window.location = "yourURL"

You must use form.onsubmit().
For example, if your form's name is myForm:
document.forms['myForm'].onsubmit = function()
{
if (this.elements['emotion'].value)
{
alert("Please rate the next item!");
}
else
{
alert("You must enter at least one word!");
return false;
}
}
And after alert "Please rate the next item!" form will be send.

Actually you can use jquery $.post() , an easy solution is just to post your php page without leaving index page.
http://api.jquery.com/jquery.post/
$.post( "yourpage.php" );

You probably have the input type of the submit button as submit? Set this to button, so the action doesn't take place and only jQuery is executed.
But then you have to submit the form by jQuery when validation was successful:
document.myFormId.submit();

How do I stop the page reload after selecting an autocomplete suggestion

I made an autocomplete for a form input field that allows a user to add tags to a list of them. If the user selects any of the suggestions, I want the page to use add the new tag to a section of tags that already exist without the page reloading.
I want this to happen with 3 scenarios:
The user types in the tag, ignores the autocomplete suggestions and presses enter.
After typing in any part of a query, the user selects one of the autocomplete suggestions with the arrow keys and presses enter.
After typing in any part of a query, the user clicks on one of the autocomplete suggestions with the mouse.
I have been able to make scenario 1 work flawlessly. However, scenarios 1 and 2 make the page reload and still doesn't even add the tag to the list.
Scenarios 1 and 2 are both called by the same function:
$j("#addTag").autocomplete({
serviceUrl:'/ac',
onSelect: function(val, data){
addTag(data);
}
});
And here is the code for addTag():
function addTag(tag){
var url = '/addTag/' + tag;
//Call the server to add the tag/
$j.ajax({
async: true,
type: 'GET',
url: url,
success:function(data){
//Add the tag to the displayed list of already added tags
reloadTagBox(data);
},
dataType: "json"
});
//Hide the messages that have been displayed to the user
hideMessageBox();
}
Scenario 1 code:
function addTagByLookup(e, tag){
if(e && e.keyCode == 13)
{
/*This stops the page from reloading (when the page thinks
the form is submitted I assume).
*/
e.preventDefault();
//If a message is currently being displayed to the user, hide it
if ($j("#messageBox").is(":visible") && $j("#okayButton").is(":visible")){
hideMessageBox();
}
else{
//Give a message to the user that their tag is being loaded
showMessageBox("Adding the tag <strong>"+tag+"</strong> to your station...",'load');
//Check if the tag is valid
setTimeout(function(){
var url = '/checkTag/' + tag;
var isTagValid = checkTag(tag);
//If the tag is not vaid, tell the user.
if (isTagValid == false){
var message = "<strong>"+tag+"</strong>"+
" was not recognized as a valid tag or artist. Try something else.";
//Prompt the user for a different tag
showMessageBox(message, 'okay');
}
//If the tag is valid
else{
addTag(tag);
}
}, 1000);
}
}
}
I know I used the e.preventDefault functionality for a normal form submit in scenario 1, but I can't seem to make it work with the other scenarios and I'm not even sure that is the real problem.
I am using pylons as the MVC and using this tutorial for the autocomplete.

So in case anyone wants to know, my problem was had an easy solution that I should have never had in the first place.
My input tag was embedded in a form which submitted every time the input tag was activated.
I had stopped this problem in scenario 1 by preventing the default event from occurring when the user pressed enter. But since I didn't have access to this event in the jQuery event .autocomplete(), I couldn't prevent it.

jquery dialog submit button cannot control enable/disable

I've been battling with this issue all day. I am hoping someone has an answer for me. I did a bunch of searching and can't seem to find an answer.
I have a page that has 3 forms on it. I am working within the 2nd form. None of the forms are embedded within another form.
I have a hidden div that contains two form elements, a drop down list and a text box, and a submit button that I anticipated it posting to the form it is enclosed in. On another button within the form itself (not submit button), I have javascript that launches jquery.Dialog, that code looks like this:
function showReleaseDiv() {
var div = $("#ReleaseHoldsDiv");
var f = div.closest("form");
div.dialog({ width: 270, height: 187, modal: true, title: 'Bulk Hold Resolution' });
div.parent().appendTo(f);
}
This part does function correctly. I've overcome the typical jquery issue where it pulls the contents of the dialog out of the form, so I put it back in the form, but wonder if this is causing my real issues which are:
The drop down list and text box are both required before I post, so I default the submit button to disabled, then I have an onchange event on the drop downlist, and the onkeyup on the text box call the following javascript:
function enablePopupRelease() {
var button = $("PopupReleaseButton");
if (button && button != null) {
button.attr("disabled", "disabled");
if ($("#ResolutionTypeCode").val() != "" && $("#ResolutionComments").val() != "") {
button.removeAttr("disabled");
}
}
return true;
}
Both events fire correctly and I step through the code; all seems fine, but the button disable state does not change.
Please help.

I believe you are missing a hash on this line:
Change:
var button = $("PopupReleaseButton");
to
var button = $("#PopupReleaseButton");

firstly I would clean some code as follows:
function enablePopupRelease() { var button = $("PopupReleaseButton"); if (button) { button.attr("disabled", "disabled"); if ($("#ResolutionTypeCode").val() && $("#ResolutionComments").val()) { button.removeAttr("disabled"); } } return true; }
Let me know if makes any difference please?
if you break through the code ... does it stop at button.removeAttr("disabled"); please?

Are you using the jQuery UI button widget for the form's submit button? If so, you will need to call
$("#PopupReleaseButton").button({disabled: true});
to disable the button.

disabled isn't an attribute, it's a property -- try using button.prop('disabled',true) and button.prop('disabled',false) instead.
http://api.jquery.com/prop/

Check the value of hidden field - Stay on page or Proceed to Next Page

I want to check the value of a hidden field triggered by a "h ref onClick" javascript function. If it is"empty", I want to prompt the user to rate my page using a ratings form (thereby staying on the same page and ignoring the h ref target page. If the value is "rated", I want to simply allow the user progress to their intended page.
Here is some code I've developed so far but doesn't really work that well:
function ratings_prompt(){
var checkIfRated = document.getElementById("hidden_rating");
if (checkIfRated.value == "empty")
{
alert("The Field is set to empty - please rate the form!");
checkIfRated.value=="rated";
}
}
Edit: Sorry but I cannot seem to get all the code into the codeblock.
GF

can't really help out all that much w/out seeing more code and also you didn't really say what the problem is..."doesn't really work that well" is kind of vague...but basically you would have in your link onclick your function call, and you should pass a "this" reference to the function, and you should have return false; in your onclick as well. Then in your function, if the hidden field is not empty, do like location.href = that.href
link
<script type='text/javascript'>
function yourFunction(that) {
if (document.getElementById("hidden_rating").value != "empty") {
location.href = that.href;
} else {
// didn't rate
}
}
</script>