Here is my code, as simple as it gets:
<form action="">
<input type="text">
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
$("form").submit(function(e){
e.stopPropagation();
e.preventDefault();
e.submit(); // tried also: $(this).submit()
});
What am I doing wrong here? why doesn't it send?
e.target.submit();
If you call the submit on the native element, rather than the jQuery element, the jQuery event handlers will be ignored.
remove preventDefault, it will prevent form submission.
$("form").submit(function(e){
e.stopPropagation();
//e.preventDefault();
return true;
});
You should use the .submit() method on the form directly:
$("form").submit();
The way your code is written now you are handling the submit event of the form and trying to submit it. If you inspected e you would see that it is an event and not the actual form. Your form is submitting just by clicking the submit button. If you wanted to prevent that and do something before submitting it, do something like this:
<form action="" id="myForm">
<input type="text">
<input type="button" value="submit" id="myButton">
</form>
$("#myButton").click(function(){
$(this).stopPropagation();
$(this).preventDefault();
//do what you need to do
$("#myForm").submit();
});
In your original code if you do actually submit the form at the end it will result in an infinite loop.
I have following two buttons:
<button type="submit" id="gform_submit_button_1">Submit</button>
<button type="button" data-is_quote="1" data-button="simple_add_to_quote" data-product-type="simple" data-product-id="75448" id="add_to_quote">Submit</button>
the #gform_submit_button_1 button validates form entries before submitting data to the server
and the #add_to_quote button submits form data without validating it
I want to be able to validate the form & submit it using the #add_to_quote button. Any solution?
Trigger click event of gform_submit_button_1 button on click of add_to_quote.
$("#add_to_quote").click(function() {
$("#gform_submit_button_1").click();
});
I'm not sure that I get the problem right, but here is a possible solution :
Create a form element with an hidden input containing all the data-X values and a submit button that submits the form.
<form method="GET/POST" action="validation.php">
<input type="hidden" name="data-validation" data-is_quote="1" data-button="simple_add_to_quote" data-product-type="simple" data-product-id="75448" id="add_to_quote">
<input type="submit" value="submit" id="add_to_quote">
</form>
I hope it will help !
#Dhara Parmar solution is fine... but is missing the event.stopPropagation() and event.preventDefault() like this:
$("#add_to_quote").click(function() {
$(this).preventDefault(); //to stop submit
$(this).stopPropagation();//to avoid the event bubbling up to other submit buttons, if any...
$("#gform_submit_button_1").click();
});
you can call the validation and submit functions of the form directly from the type=button click handler to make it behave like a type=submit
$("#add_to_quote").click(function () {
if (!$("#TheForm").validate()) { //native validation triggered
return false;
} else {
$("#TheForm").submit()
}
});
I saw from W3C example something like this. An action happens on form submit(an alert). However, when I tried with my own function here, my action doesn't happen (show hidden div). Goal is to show hidden div on form submit using 'GET' request. I am new to javascript/jQuery/ajax, but isn't jQuery supposed make call to server without refreshing page?
not working javascript:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("form").submit(function showDiv(){
document.getElementById("showMe").style.display = "block";
});
});
not working html:
<body>
<form action="" method="GET">
<input type="text" name="LastName" value="Mouse"><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
<div id="showMe" style="display: none;">
<p>hey this should be hidden</p>
</div>
</body>
You need to cancel the form submit before executing your code:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("form").submit(function(e){
// At this point you'll want to have some type of flag to indicate whether you
// should allow the form submission to continue, or cancel the event. For example,
// it could be whether not showMe is visible (I don't know what you're going for).
e.preventDefault();
$("#showMe").css("display", "block");
// Submit form after your code runs (or whenever you want)
$("form").submit();
});
});
$(document).ready(function(){
$("form").submit(function(e){
e.preventDefault(); // this will prevent the submit
document.getElementById("showMe").style.display = "block";
});
});
Actually the jfiddle you posted is not blocking the form, it shows you an alert that block all js execution (browser behavior), if you select ok in the alert, the form goes through
the event.preventDefault() statement means: don't process anything outside this function
Try this:
$("form").submit(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$("#showMe").show();
});
You need at least one form element (button or input), that has type "submit".
Then jQuery .submit() or .on('submit',..) will definitely work.
What I want is to be able to submit a form when ever a user presses some key like tab or enter (i.e. that will case him to lose focus) also clicking outside of the text field should trigger a submit. However when ever he click on the cancel button it should prevent the submit ion
html structure look like this
<form id="form">
<input id="text" onblur="$(this).closest('form').submit();">
<a id"submit">submit</a>
<a id"cancel">cancel</a>
</form>
Currently what happens is that when a user presses enter a form is submitted twice and it should be submitted only once. When he presses a cancel a form is submitted and cancelled right after that.
Does anyone have any idea how can I write some javascript code that can accomplish this behaviour (the idea for is take form the jira in-line edit mode and I am trying to construct something in similar manner)
I'm going to provide you with another you could approach this by using jQuery and it's .change() event handler. This way when the user clicks off of the input element, it'll trigger the .change() event and you can submit a form within it's callback function. If the user cancels then you can handle that event normally, same with the submit button click.
The Form:
<form id="form">
<input id="text">
<a id="cancel">cancel</a>
<a id="submit">submit</a>
</form>
The Javascript (jQuery):
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#submit').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
//submit the form
console.log('form submitted by button click')
});
$('#cancel').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
//close form?
console.log('cancelled form');
});
$('#text').change(function(){
//submit the form
console.log('form submitted, maybe hide form now?');
});
});
The jsFiddle.
Keep submit flag to prevent duplication on form submit. Something like that
<form id="form">
<input id="text" onblur="submitForm('form');">
<button onclick="submitForm('form');">submit</button>
<button type="cancel">cancel</button>
</form>
<script>
var submitFlag = {};
function submitForm(id){
if(!submitFlag[id]){
submitFlag[id] = true;
$('#' + id).submit();
} else {
// do nothing
// alert('Form already submitted');
return;
}
}
</script>
I have the following HTML and jquery:
<html dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Test disabling submit button for 1 minute...</h2>
<br/>
<p style="text-align:center">
<form id="yourFormId" name="yourFormId" method="post" action="#">
<input type="submit" class="submitBtn" value="I Accept"/>
</form>
</p>
<!--script to disable the submit button -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$(".submitBtn").click(function () {
$(".submitBtn").attr("disabled", true);
return true;
});
});
</script>
<!--script ends here-->
</body>
</html>
As its stands the submit button gets disabled when pressed. However once pressed it does not seem perform the submit. If I removed the jquery to disable the button, the button then performs the submit normally.
How can I disable the button only after it has performed the submit? the current jquery above seems to conflict with the submit operation.
Any suggestions to resolve this issue would be extremely helpful.
Add the disable part in the submit event.
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#yourFormId").submit(function () {
$(".submitBtn").attr("disabled", true);
return true;
});
});
I faced the same problem. Customers could submit a form and then multiple e-mail addresses will receive a mail message. If the response of the page takes too long, sometimes the button was pushed twice or even more times..
I tried disable the button in the onsubmit handler, but the form wasn't submitted at all. Above solutions work probably fine, but for me it was a little bit too tricky, so I decided to try something else.
To the left side of the submit button, I placed a second button, which is not displayed and is disabled at start up:
<button disabled class="btn btn-primary" type=button id="btnverzenden2" style="display: none"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-refresh"></span> Sending mail</button>
<button class="btn btn-primary" type=submit name=verzenden id="btnverzenden">Send</button>
In the onsubmit handler attached to the form, the 'real' submit is hidden and the 'fake' submit is shown with a message that the messages are being sent.
function checkinput // submit handler
{
..
...
$("#btnverzenden").hide(); <= real submit button will be hidden
$("#btnverzenden2").show(); <= fake submit button gets visible
...
..
}
This worked for us. I hope it will help you.
This solution has the advantages of working on mobile and being quite simple:
<form ... onsubmit="myButtonValue.disabled = true; return true;">
Hey this works,
$(function(){
$(".submitBtn").click(function () {
$(".submitBtn").attr("disabled", true);
$('#yourFormId').submit();
});
});
As a number of people have pointed out, disabling the submit button has some negative side effects (at least in Chrome it prevents the name/value of the button pressed from being submitted). My solution was to simply add an attribute to indicate that submit has been requested, and then check for the presence of this attribute on every submit. Because I'm using the submit function, this is only called after all HTML 5 validation is successful. Here is my code:
$("form.myform").submit(function (e) {
// Check if we have submitted before
if ( $("#submit-btn").attr('attempted') == 'true' ) {
//stop submitting the form because we have already clicked submit.
e.preventDefault();
}
else {
$("#submit-btn").attr("attempted", 'true');
}
});
Test with a setTimeout, that worked for me and I could submit my form, refers to this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/779785/5510314
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#btnSubmit").click(function () {
setTimeout(function () { disableButton(); }, 0);
});
function disableButton() {
$("#btnSubmit").prop('disabled', true);
}
});
Reading the comments, it seems that these solutions are not consistent across browsers.
Decided then to think how I would have done this 10 years ago before the advent of jQuery and event function binding.
So here is my retro hipster solution:
<script type="text/javascript">
var _formConfirm_submitted = false;
</script>
<form name="frmConfirm" onsubmit="if( _formConfirm_submitted == false ){ _formConfirm_submitted = true;return true }else{ alert('your request is being processed!'); return false; }" action="" method="GET">
<input type="submit" value="submit - but only once!"/>
</form>
The main point of difference is that I am relying on the ability to stop a form submitting through returning false on the submit handler, and I am using a global flag variable - which will make me go straight to hell!
But on the plus side, I cannot imagine any browser compatibility issues - hey, it would probably even work in Netscape!
This is the edited script, hope it helps,
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$("#yourFormId").on('submit', function(){
return false;
$(".submitBtn").attr("disabled",true); //disable the submit here
//send the form data via ajax which will not relaod the page and disable the submit button
$.ajax({
url : //your url to submit the form,
data : { $("#yourFormId").serializeArray() }, //your data to send here
type : 'POST',
success : function(resp){
alert(resp); //or whatever
},
error : function(resp){
}
});
})
});
</script>
I put this in my global code to work on all submit buttons:
$("input[type='submit']").on("click", function (e) {
$(this).attr("disabled", true);
$(this).closest("form").submit()
});
My problem was solved when i add bind section to my script file.
Totally i did this 2 steps :
1 - Disable button and prevent double submitting :
$('form').submit(function () {
$(this).find(':submit').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
});
2 - Enable submit button if validation error occurred :
$("form").bind("invalid-form.validate", function () {
$(this).find(':submit').prop('disabled', false);
});
Not that I recommend placing JavaScript directly into HTML, but this works in modern browsers (not IE11) to disable all submit buttons after a form submits:
<form onsubmit="this.querySelectorAll('[type=submit]').forEach(b => b.disabled = true)">
I went through a lot of solutions for my problem statement and I think most of the people here are also answering the same.
Generally, when you do a server side form submit, there is a chance of user clicking the button multiple times which leads to multiple submissions. So, to prevent that, the button should be disabled after the first submit. This is what worked for me in the most elegant way.
We have a form submit event <form onsubmit="onFormSubmitted()"></form>.
In onFormSubmitted() disable your submit button or do any operations required.
Handing this way retains your html validations as well as it disables the button once the form submit is triggered when first click of button takes place.
function onSubmit() {
$('.btn_submit').attr('disabled', true);
}
<form class="contact_form" method="POST" autocomplete="off" onsubmit="onSubmit()">
<input name="email" id="email">
<button class="btn_submit" type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
Alternatively, you can also make global form submit handler for forms throughout the project.
$('form').on('submit', function() {
$(this).find(":submit").prop('disabled', true);
});
$(document).ready(function() {
$(body).submit(function () {
var btn = $(this).find("input[type=submit]:focus");
if($(btn).prop("id") == "YourButtonID")
$(btn).attr("disabled", "true");
});
}
$(function(){
$("input[type='submit']").click(function () {
$(this).attr("disabled", true);
});
});
thant's it.