How would I go about preventing the page from refreshing when pressing the send button without any data in the fields?
The validation is setup working fine, all fields go red but then the page is immediately refreshed. My knowledge of JS is relatively basic.
In particular I think the processForm() function at the bottom is 'bad'.
HTML
<form id="prospects_form" method="post">
<input id="form_name" tabindex="1" class="boxsize" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Full name*" maxlength="80" value="" />
<input id="form_email" tabindex="2" class="boxsize" type="text" name="email" placeholder="Email*" maxlength="100" value="" />
<input id="form_subject" class="boxsize" type="text" name="subject" placeholder="Subject*" maxlength="50" value="FORM: Row for OUBC" />
<textarea id="form_message" class="boxsize" name="message" placeholder="Message*" tabindex="3" rows="6" cols="5" maxlength="500"></textarea>
<button id="form_send" tabindex="5" class="btn" type="submit" onclick="return processForm()">Send</button>
<div id="form_validation">
<span class="form_captcha_code"></span>
<input id="form_captcha" class="boxsize" type="text" name="form_captcha" placeholder="Enter code" tabindex="4" value="" />
</div>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
</form>
JS
$(document).ready(function() {
// Add active class to inputs
$("#prospects_form .boxsize").focus(function() { $(this).addClass("hasText"); });
$("#form_validation .boxsize").focus(function() { $(this).parent().addClass("hasText"); });
// Remove active class from inputs (if empty)
$("#prospects_form .boxsize").blur(function() { if ( this.value === "") { $(this).removeClass("hasText"); } });
$("#form_validation .boxsize").blur(function() { if ( this.value === "") { $(this).parent().removeClass("hasText"); } });
///////////////////
// START VALIDATION
$("#prospects_form").ready(function() {
// DEFINE GLOBAL VARIABLES
var valName = $('#form_name'),
valEmail = $("#form_email"),
valEmailFormat = /^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s#\"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s#\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))#((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/,
valMsg = $('#form_message'),
valCaptcha = $('#form_captcha'),
valCaptchaCode = $('.form_captcha_code');
// Generate captcha
function randomgen() {
var rannumber = "";
// Iterate through 1 to 9, 4 times
for(ranNum=1; ranNum<=4; ranNum++){ rannumber+=Math.floor(Math.random()*10).toString(); }
// Apply captcha to element
valCaptchaCode.html(rannumber);
}
randomgen();
// CAPTCHA VALIDATION
valCaptcha.blur(function() {
function formCaptcha() {
if ( valCaptcha.val() == valCaptchaCode.html() ) {
// Incorrect
valCaptcha.parent().addClass("invalid");
return false;
} else {
// Correct
valCaptcha.parent().removeClass("invalid");
return true;
}
}
formCaptcha();
});
// Remove invalid class from captcha if typing
valCaptcha.keypress(function() {
valCaptcha.parent().removeClass("invalid");
});
// EMAIL VALIDATION (BLUR)
valEmail.blur(function() {
function formEmail() {
if (!valEmailFormat.test(valEmail.val()) && valEmail.val() !== "" ) {
// Incorrect
valEmail.addClass("invalid");
} else {
// Correct
valEmail.removeClass("invalid");
}
}
formEmail();
});
// Remove invalid class from email if typing
valEmail.keypress(function() {
valEmail.removeClass("invalid");
});
// VALIDATION ON SUBMIT
$('#prospects_form').submit(function() {
console.log('user hit send button');
// EMAIL VALIDATION (SUBMIT)
function formEmailSubmit() {
if (!valEmailFormat.test(valEmail.val())) {
// Incorrect
valEmail.addClass("invalid");
} else {
// Correct
valEmail.removeClass("invalid");
}
}
formEmailSubmit();
// Validate captcha
function formCaptchaSubmit() {
if( valCaptcha.val() === valCaptchaCode.html() ) {
// Captcha is correct
} else {
// Captcha is incorrect
valCaptcha.parent().addClass("invalid");
randomgen();
}
}
formCaptchaSubmit();
// If NAME field is empty
function formNameSubmit() {
if ( valName.val() === "" ) {
// Name is empty
valName.addClass("invalid");
} else {
valName.removeClass("invalid");
}
}
formNameSubmit();
// If MESSAGE field is empty
function formMessageSubmit() {
if ( valMsg.val() === "" ) {
// Name is empty
valMsg.addClass("invalid");
} else {
valMsg.removeClass("invalid");
}
}
formMessageSubmit();
// Submit form (if all good)
function processForm() {
if ( formEmailSubmit() && formCaptchaSubmit() && formNameSubmit() && formMessageSubmit() ) {
$("#prospects_form").attr("action", "/clients/oubc/row-for-oubc-send.php");
$("#form_send").attr("type", "submit");
return true;
} else if( !formEmailSubmit() ) {
valEmail.addClass("invalid");
return false;
} else if ( !formCaptchaSubmit() ) {
valCaptcha.parent().addClass("invalid");
return false;
} else if ( !formNameSubmit() ) {
valName.addClass("invalid");
return false;
} else if ( !formMessageSubmit() ) {
valMsg.addClass("invalid");
return false;
} else {
return false;
}
}
});
});
// END VALIDATION
/////////////////
});
You can prevent the form from submitting with
$("#prospects_form").submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
});
Of course, in the function, you can check for empty fields, and if anything doesn't look right, e.preventDefault() will stop the submit.
Without jQuery:
var form = document.getElementById("myForm");
function handleForm(event) { event.preventDefault(); }
form.addEventListener('submit', handleForm);
Add this onsubmit="return false" code:
<form onsubmit="return false">
That fixed it for me. It will still run the onClick function you specify.
Replace button type to button:
<button type="button">My Cool Button</button>
One great way to prevent reloading the page when submitting using a form is by adding return false with your onsubmit attribute.
<form onsubmit="yourJsFunction();return false">
<input type="text"/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
You can use this code for form submission without a page refresh. I have done this in my project.
$(function () {
$('#myFormName').on('submit',function (e) {
$.ajax({
type: 'post',
url: 'myPageName.php',
data: $('#myFormName').serialize(),
success: function () {
alert("Email has been sent!");
}
});
e.preventDefault();
});
});
This problem becomes more complex when you give the user 2 possibilities to submit the form:
by clicking on an ad hoc button
by hitting Enter key
In such a case you will need a function which detects the pressed key in which you will submit the form if Enter key was hit.
And now comes the problem with IE (in any case version 11)
Remark:
This issue does not exist with Chrome nor with FireFox !
When you click the submit button the form is submitted once; fine.
When you hit Enter the form is submitted twice ... and your servlet will be executed twice. If you don't have PRG (post redirect get) architecture serverside the result might be unexpected.
Even though the solution looks trivial, it tooks me many hours to solve this problem, so I hope it might be usefull for other folks.
This solution has been successfully tested, among others, on IE (v 11.0.9600.18426), FF (v 40.03) & Chrome (v 53.02785.143 m 64 bit)
The source code HTML & js are in the snippet. The principle is described there.
Warning:
You can't test it in the snippet because the post action is not
defined and hitting Enter key might interfer with stackoverflow.
If you faced this issue, then just copy/paste js code to your environment and adapt it to your context.
/*
* inForm points to the form
*/
var inForm = document.getElementById('idGetUserFrm');
/*
* IE submits the form twice
* To avoid this the boolean isSumbitted is:
* 1) initialized to false when the form is displayed 4 the first time
* Remark: it is not the same event as "body load"
*/
var isSumbitted = false;
function checkEnter(e) {
if (e && e.keyCode == 13) {
inForm.submit();
/*
* 2) set to true after the form submission was invoked
*/
isSumbitted = true;
}
}
function onSubmit () {
if (isSumbitted) {
/*
* 3) reset to false after the form submission executed
*/
isSumbitted = false;
return false;
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<form id="idGetUserFrm" method="post" action="servletOrSomePhp" onsubmit="return onSubmit()">
First name:<br>
<input type="text" name="firstname" value="Mickey">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
The best solution is onsubmit call any function whatever you want and return false after it.
onsubmit="xxx_xxx(); return false;"
Most people would prevent the form from submitting by calling the event.preventDefault() function.
Another means is to remove the onclick attribute of the button, and get the code in processForm() out into .submit(function() { as return false; causes the form to not submit. Also, make the formBlaSubmit() functions return Boolean based on validity, for use in processForm();
katsh's answer is the same, just easier to digest.
(By the way, I'm new to stackoverflow, give me guidance please. )
In pure Javascript, use: e.preventDefault()
e.preventDefault() is used in jquery but works in javascript.
document.querySelector(".buttonclick").addEventListener("click",
function(e){
//some code
e.preventDefault();
})
The best way to do so with JS is using preventDefault() function.
Consider the code below for reference:
function loadForm(){
var loginForm = document.querySelector('form'); //Selecting the form
loginForm.addEventListener('submit', login); //looking for submit
}
function login(e){
e.preventDefault(); //to stop form action i.e. submit
}
Personally I like to validate the form on submit and if there are errors, just return false.
$('form').submit(function() {
var error;
if ( !$('input').val() ) {
error = true
}
if (error) {
alert('there are errors')
return false
}
});
http://jsfiddle.net/dfyXY/
$("#buttonID").click(function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
//some logic here
}
If you want to use Pure Javascript then the following snippet will be better than anything else.
Suppose:
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Form Without Submiting With Pure JS</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function(){
/**
* Just Make sure to return false so that your request will not go the server script
*/
document.getElementById('simple_form').onsubmit = function(){
// After doing your logic that you want to do
return false
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
<form id="simple_form" method="post">
<!-- Your Inputs will go here -->
<input type="submit" value="Submit Me!!" />
</form>
Hope so it works for You!!
Just use "javascript:" in your action attribute of form if you are not using action.
In my opinion, most answers are trying to solve the problem asked on your question, but I don't think that's the best approach for your scenario.
How would I go about preventing the page from refreshing when pressing the send button without any data in the fields?
A .preventDefault() does indeed not refresh the page. But I think that a simple require on the fields you want populated with data, would solve your problem.
<form id="prospects_form" method="post">
<input id="form_name" tabindex="1" class="boxsize" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Full name*" maxlength="80" value="" required/>
<input id="form_email" tabindex="2" class="boxsize" type="text" name="email" placeholder="Email*" maxlength="100" value="" required/>
<input id="form_subject" class="boxsize" type="text" name="subject" placeholder="Subject*" maxlength="50" value="FORM: Row for OUBC" required/>
<textarea id="form_message" class="boxsize" name="message" placeholder="Message*" tabindex="3" rows="6" cols="5" maxlength="500"></textarea>
</form>
Notice the require tag added at the end of each input. The result will be the same: not refreshing the page without any data in the fields.
<form onsubmit="myFunction(event)">
Name : <input type="text"/>
<input class="submit" type="submit">
</form>
<script>
function myFunction(event){
event.preventDefault();
//code here
}
</script>
function ajax_form(selector, obj)
{
var form = document.querySelectorAll(selector);
if(obj)
{
var before = obj.before ? obj.before : function(){return true;};
var $success = obj.success ? obj.success: function(){return true;};
for (var i = 0; i < form.length; i++)
{
var url = form[i].hasAttribute('action') ? form[i].getAttribute('action') : window.location;
var $form = form[i];
form[i].submit = function()
{
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.open("POST", url, true);
var FD = new FormData($form);
/** prevent submiting twice */
if($form.disable === true)
return this;
$form.disable = true;
if(before() === false)
return;
xhttp.addEventListener('load', function()
{
$form.disable = false;
return $success(JSON.parse(this.response));
});
xhttp.send(FD);
}
}
}
return form;
}
Didn't check how it works. You can also bind(this) so it will work like jquery ajaxForm
use it like:
ajax_form('form',
{
before: function()
{
alert('submiting form');
// if return false form shouldn't be submitted
},
success:function(data)
{
console.log(data)
}
}
)[0].submit();
it return nodes so you can do something like submit i above example
so far from perfection but it suppose to work, you should add error handling or remove disable condition
Sometimes e.preventDefault(); works then developers are happy but sometimes not work then developers are sad then I found solution why sometimes not works
first code sometimes works
$("#prospects_form").submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
});
second option why not work?
This doesn't work because jquery or other javascript library not loading properly you can check it in console that all jquery and javascript files are loaded properly or not.
This solves my problem. I hope this will be helpful for you.
I hope this will be the last answer
$('#the_form').submit(function(e){
e.preventDefault()
alert($(this).serialize())
// var values = $(this).serialize()
// logic....
})
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="the_form">
Label-A <input type="text" name='a'required><br>
Label-B <input type="text" name="b" required><br>
Label-C <input type="password" name="c" required><br>
Label-D <input type="number" name="d" required><br>
<input type="submit" value="Save without refresh">
</form>
You can do this by clearing the state as below. add this to very beginning of the document.ready function.
if ( window.history.replaceState ) {
window.history.replaceState( null, null, window.location.href );
}
I'm trying to implement a code in my script that will block enter key until 4 digits entered in a text field.
Here are my forms:
<div id="inputtext">
<input type="text" id="dreamtext" maxlength="45" spellcheck='false' autofocus/>
<input type="submit" id="nextstepbutton" value="next step" onclick="window.open('step3.html','_self','resizable=yes')" />
</div>
This particular script hides submit button when < 4 characters entered and shows it when 4 or more entered. It also modifies some div content.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$("#nextstepbutton").hide();
$("#dreamtext").keyup(function() {
var val = $(this).val();
if (val.length > 3) {
$('#nextstepbutton').show();
document.getElementById("message").innerHTML = "<h1>hit return or next step</h1>";
}
else {
$('#nextstepbutton').hide();
document.getElementById("message").innerHTML = "<h1>type please</h1>";
}
});
});
</script>
This script presses submit button when enter key pressed
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#dreamtext").keyup(function(event){
if(event.keyCode == 13){
$("#nextstepbutton").click();
}
});
</script>
Now, what is the best way to block the enter key when less than 4 digits entered? Thanks
There is a method in the keydown(/up/press) event called preventDefault.
This makes any default action not happen.
$("#dreamtext").keyup(function(event) {
if ($(this).val().length < 4) {
event.preventDefault();
}
if (event.keyCode == 13) {
$("#nextstepbutton").click();
}
});
You could also connect it to the jQuery .submit() handler.
$("#someForm").submit(function(){
if ($("#dreamText").val().length < 4) {
return false;
}
})
This is my simple form. I want to validate both inputs if it has some value inserted and that value is not a spaces. How can I achieve such functionality before request gets submitted to server side? Thanks a lot!
<form:form method="post" action ="${addQueryOverride}">
<label>Enter query string and product list ID: </label>
<input maxlength="30" class="text span-1" name="queryOverride" id="queryOverrideId"/>
<input onkeypress="return isNumberKey(event)" maxlength="30" class="text span-1" name="productList" id="productListId"/>
<input type="submit" value="Add">
</form:form>
$(function() { // when page load
$("form").on("submit",function(e) {
if ($.trim($("#queryOverrideId").val()) == "") {
alert("Please enter query");
$("#queryOverrideId").focus();
return false;
}
var id = $("#productListId").val();
if ($.trim(id) == "" || isNaN(id)) {
alert("Please enter product list");
$("#productListId").focus();
return false;
}
});
});
On submit, iterate over each of the fields and run a check:
$("form input:text").each(function() {
var isValid = this.value.length > 0 && this.value.indexOf(" ") == -1;
return isValid; //if true, go to next element, if false, break each loop
});
I have a mvc3 application. and on one page i have a textbox that will allow a user to search for a client, now i am struggling with some functionality, as i am a windows form and widows phone 8 developer. i want this text box i have here to execute as i press enter, i have a button that the user can click on to search, but i know most users just click enter! i am using JavaScript to hit function!
Html for button and textbox:
<td>
<input value="Search..." id="SearchText" style="color:GrayText" onchange="SearchText" onfocus="javascript:this.value=''" onblur="javascript: if(this.value==''){this.value='Search...';}" />
<input id="searchbutton" type="button" value="Search" class="button"/>
</td>
Here is the Javascript :
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#searchbutton').click(function(){
var client = document.getElementById('SearchText').value;
var textbox = document.getElementById('SearchText');
var edittext = ", is not available!";
var result = client + edittext;
if (textbox.value == 'Search...') {
alert('Please enter a Client Name to search for ');
textbox.focus();
}
else {
alert(result);
};
});
</script>
how would i get the textbox to also trigger the function as i hit enter on the textbox!
here is how it looks on the form :
very new to this kind of coding, any help will do!
thanks!
$('#searchbutton').click(search);
$('#SearchText').keypress(function(e){
var code = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
if(code == 13) {
search()
}
});
function search(){
var client = document.getElementById('SearchText').value;
var textbox = document.getElementById('SearchText');
var edittext = ", is not available!";
var result = client + edittext;
if (textbox.value == 'Search...') {
alert('Please enter a Client Name to search for ');
textbox.focus();
}
else {
alert(result);
};
}
$('#SearchText').on('keypress', function(e){
var code = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
if(code == 13) {
//write your code for search here..like searchbutton on click
}
});
I dont know the exact answer to your question but you could use a tabindex
to press tab to jump to your button and then you can press enter to submit.
try this..
<input type="text" placeholder="Search" id="txtSearch" />
<input type="button" value="Search" id="btnsearch" onclick="return Search();" />
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#txtSearch").keyup(function (event) {
if (event.keyCode == 13) {
$("#btnsearch").click();
}
});
function Search(){
// do Something here.......
}
</script>
I have some input form on names: owner, number, city
<input id="id_owner" type="text" name="owner" maxlength="250" />
<input id="id_number" type="text" name="number" maxlength="250" />
<input id="id_city" type="text" name="city" maxlength="250" />
How to check if the user has not entered the data to a form (befor sending) that does not show this dialog from this code:
<a type="submit" name"save-continue-to-review" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#dialog" href=""
class="btn primary btn-primary" title="Order">Order
</a>
and it will show another
Here is full code: http://wklej.org/id/927806/
Eventually you'll be able to use HTML5 form validation. But until then, use some jQuery code like this. (only because you tagged the question with jQuery. You could potentially do it with vanilla JS.)
(un-tested code, but should work)
var fields = $('input')
$('form').submit(function(e){
e.preventDefault()
valid = true
fields.each(function(){
if ($(this).val() == null) {
valid = false
}
});
if (valid == true) {
$('form').submit()
} else {
alert("At least one field was not valid!")
}
});
1) Add this on your form
onsubmit="return validateForm(this);"
2)The validate function (checks if fields are empty)
function validateform(formObj)
{
inputs = formObj.GetElementsByTagName('input');
for(i=0; i < inputs.length; i++)
{
if($.trim(inputs[i].value) == '')
{
alert('Field: ' + inputs[i].name + ' is empty!');
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
if ( !$(this).val() ) {
valid = false
}
maybe this post is useful for you