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Closing popup only if the form is valid

I want to validate my inputText field, which is in a popupPanel. It should contains only numbers.
<h:form>
<h:outputText value="Input:"/>
<h:inputText id="myID" value="#{myBean.field}"
validatorMessage="Only numbers">
<f:validateRegex pattern="([0-9])*$" />
<rich:validator />
<a4j:ajax event="change" render="msgValidator" />
</h:inputText>
<h:message id="msgValidator" for="myID" styleClass="text_colorRed" />
</h:form>
After all I want to save all with button. If the input is correct I want to close the popup, otherwise I want to re-insert the correct input without closing popup.
<a4j:ajaxButton type="submit" value="Save" styleClass="text_weigthBold"
action="#{myBean.save()}" render="myTable"
oncomplete="#{rich:component('myPopup')}.hide();" execute="#this">
</a4j:ajaxButton>
Unfortunately when I type wrong input and click two times on the button, it save the request and close the popup without requesting to input the correct text.
I also used a Java validator but the behavior is still the same.
What can I do to correct this bug?

This is because you're closing popup unconditionally. You must check yourself if validation was OK. In JSF 2.0 you can use FacesContext#isValidationFailed().
<a4j:commandButton execute="#form" value="Save" styleClass="text_weigthBold"
oncomplete="if (!#{facesContext.validationFailed}) {#{rich:component('myPopup')}.hide();}"
action="#{myBean.save}" render="myTable" />
To check also other errors you can use facesContext.maximumSeverity.ordinal gt 0 or facesContext.maximumSeverity != null.
I don't know RF 3.X (and you didn't tell if you're using RF 3 or 4) but it looks like it never had component named a4j:ajaxButton, did you mean a4j:commandButton? Also note that I've changed action="#{myBean.save()}" to action="#{myBean.save}" which is corrent.

Resolved. In the form there were some h:checkbox, I remove the checkboxes and now it works fine. I dont know why the Richfaces checkbox doesn't work correctly but I replace them with HTML checkbox.

Disable the input value

I have an input field. In which I want to fix a value. I am able to fix the value by putting readonly but it's not passing the value which I have put as fixed.
what I am doing is:-
<input name="txt_zip_code" class="z-con-input adj-z-con-input" style="background:#eee" type="text" maxlength="13" field="txt_zip_code" value="98052" readonly="readonly" />
I want to make the value same for every user.
Can I get any help in this.

You have not included what back end system you are using, which is relevant information. However, with PHP and ASP.NET MVC I've discovered a similar behavior. I believe you are describing disabled/readonly inputs sending null values to the back end controller. In the past, I've found that I had to re-enable inputs with Javascript before submitting them to the controller. The jquery to do this is:
$("input[type='submit']").click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$("input").removeProp('readonly');
$("form").submit();
});
However, if the field is always static, you may just want to hard code it on the back end.
I'd also recommend you check out the w3 specification on disabled elements to make sure the readonly attribute is the correct attribute for you. You are currently using the readonly attribute incorrectly, as it is a boolean attribute.
<input readonly="readonly">
should be:
<input readonly>

Setting dynamic value of <jsp:param> using javascript

i have a input hidden field which has a value
<input type="text" name="ip_hide" id="ip_hide" value="suppose a ip">
this value i can set it by javascript function using document.getElementById().value method..
below this input field i have to load a jsp page dynamically. so i use
<jsp:include="dynamic.jsp">
<jsp:param name="ip" value="?"/>
</jsp:include>
I want to fetch the value from hidden input field and try to set it in jsp:param value ..
Is it possible by javascript ?? Or if there is another way then plz grab my attention

On the same page? You're confused as to the fact that JSP runs on the server and serves the page to the browser, and then the Javascript runs in the browser. So by the time you've changed the value in javascript, the JSP is no longer running.
If, on the other hand, you mean after the user clicks a submit button on a form and the post or get request is sent to the server again, then you just use request.getParameter:
<jsp:include="dynamic.jsp">
<jsp:param name="ip" value="<%= request.getParameter("ip_hide") %>"/>
</jsp:include>
By the way, if you want the value to be hidden on your HTML form (its not really hidden if the user views source, hidden just means not visible on the rendered page) then you should do type='hidden' not type='text':
<input type="hidden" name="ip_hide" id="ip_hide" value="suppose a ip" />

How send a form with Javascript when input name is "submit"?

Question: How can you send a form with Javascript if one form input has the name submit?
Background: I am redirecting the user to another page with a hidden HTML form. I cannot change name on the (hidden) inputs, since the other page is on another server and the inputs need to be exactly as they are. My HTML form looks like this:
<form id="redirectForm" method="post" action="http://www.example.com/">
<input name="search" type="hidden" value="search for this" />
<input name="submit" type="hidden" value="search now" />
</form>
I use the following javascript line to send the form automatically today:
document.getElementById('redirectForm').submit();
However, since the name of one input is "submit" (it cannot be something else, or the other server won't handle the request), document.getElementById('redirectForm').submit refers to the input as it overrides the form function submit().
The error message in Firefox is: Error: document.getElementById("requestform").submit is not a function. Similar error message in Safari.

Worth noting: It's often a lot easier to just change the input name to something other than "submit". Please use the solution below only if that's really not possible.
You need to get the submit function from a different form:
document.createElement('form').submit.call(document.getElementById('redirectForm'));
If you have already another <form> tag, you can use it instead of creating another one.

Use submit() method from HTMLFormElement.prototype:
HTMLFormElement.prototype.submit.call(document.getElementById('redirectForm'));

Form not submitting with JS

I have the worlds most simple javascript function:
fnSubmit()
{
window.print();
document.formname.submit();
}
Which is called by:
<button type="button" id="submit" onclick="fnSubmit()">Submit</button>
All is well and good, the print dialog shows up, however after printing or canceling the print I get the following error:
"document.formname.submit is not a function"
My form is defined as follows: (obviously I am not using formname in the actual code but you get the idea)
<form name="formname" id="formname" method="post" action="<?=$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']?>">
Obviously I am not trying to do anything special here and I have used similar approaches in the past, what in the world am I missing here?

In short: change the id of your submit button to something different than "submit". Also, don't set the name to this value either.
Now, some deeper insight. The general case is that document.formname.submit is a method that, when called, will submit the form. However, in your example, document.formname.submit is not a method anymore, but the DOM node representing the button.
This happens because elements of a form are available as attributes of its DOM node, via their name and id attributes. This wording is a bit confusing, so here comes an example:
<form name="example" id="example" action="/">
<input type="text" name="exampleField" />
<button type="button" name="submit" onclick="document.example.submit(); return false;">Submit</button>
</form>
On this example, document.forms.example.exampleField is a DOM node representing the field with name "exampleField". You can use JS to access its properties such as its value: document.forms.example.exampleField.value.
However, on this example there is an element of the form called "submit", and this is the submit button, which can be accessed with document.forms.example.submit. This overwrites the previous value, which was the function that allows you to submit the form.
EDIT:
If renaming the field isn't good for you, there is another solution. Shortly before writing this, I left the question on the site and got a response in the form of a neat JavaScript hack:
function hack() {
var form = document.createElement("form");
var myForm = document.example;
form.submit.apply(myForm);
}
See How to reliably submit an HTML form with JavaScript? for complete details

Given that your form has both an id and a name defined, you could use either one of these:
With the form tag's id:
document.getElementById('formname').submit();
With the form tag's name attribute:
document.forms['formname'].submit();

Try this:
fnSubmit()
{
window.print();
document.getElementById("formname").submit();
}

The most likely culprit is IE confusing JavaScript variables, ids, and names. Search in your source for something sharing the name of your form.

Place a input button inside your form.
Give tabindex="-1" on it.
Make It invisible using style="display:none;".
Like This
<input type="submit" tabindex="-1" style="display:none;" />