RE: Another JavaScript form submit question

>Well, Cyanide_7 pointed me in the right direction. It wasn't a typo exactly
>but this particular form is intolerant of slight variations in structure
>I've gotten away with elsewhere. Here is a version closer to the real web
>page (I had assumed my problem was near the beginning of the form). See the
>name attributes in the Submit and Reset buttons? Bad, bad, bad. Took 'em
>out; now it works!

yes, that would do it. "this.form.submit" is natively a method called to 
submit the form. when you define any form element with the name "submit" 
then "this.form.submit" is overridden and becomes a reference to the 
element. and therefore cannot be executed to submit the form. - Cyanide_7


>
>Keith Purtell, Web Designer
>
>
><FORM name="myform" action="process_form.html" method="POST">
><SELECT name="OptionNumber" size="1" onChange="this.form.submit();">
>	<OPTION selected value="1">First</OPTION>
>	<OPTION value="2">Second</OPTION>
>	<OPTION value="3">Third</OPTION>
></SELECT>
><INPUT type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
><INPUT type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset">
></FORM>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cyanide _7 [mailto:leo7278(at)hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 12:16 PM
> > To: kpurtell(at)vantagemed.net
> > Cc: hwg-languages(at)hwg.org
> > Subject: RE: Another JavaScript form submit question
> >
> >
> > well i tested it again, and it still works fine for me IE5. and this
> > technique is not exclusive to either browser and should work in V3.x+
> > browsers i think. whats the URL of the page in question?
> > Maybe there's some
> > other code conflicting or a typo even. - Cyanide_7
> >
> > >
> > >My intention is user convenience. The form in question is a
> > heavily-used
> > >page where administrators pick an office location from the
> > drop down, then
> > >click "Submit" to go to a ColdFusion template where a
> > database query lists
> > >all employees at that location. That's basically all the
> > page does: select
> > >a
> > >location. I thought making the submit automatic would cut
> > their time in
> > >half; a little tweak for my users. By the way, I tried your
> > suggestion and
> > >got the same error message. I thought some other code on the
> > page might be
> > >interfering, so I stripped out everything except the minimum
> > HTML, the form
> > >and the onChange. No luck. Stranger yet, it says my
> > JavaScript error is on
> > >line 37, which does not exist now that I stripped down the
> > document. I'm
> > >using IE5 on Win98. A test with Netscape 4.7 resulted in
> > "JavaScript Error:
> > >this.form.submit is not a function" Hey, this was supposed
> > to be simple!
> > >
> > >Keith Purtell, Web Designer
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Cyanide _7 [mailto:leo7278(at)hotmail.com]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 6:59 PM
> > > > To: kpurtell(at)vantagemed.net
> > > > Cc: hwg-languages(at)hwg.org
> > > > Subject: Re: Another JavaScript form submit question
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > im not quite sure what you mean or why you want to do this,
> > > > but this should
> > > > do it:
> > > >
> > > > <FORM name="myform" action="process_form.html" method="POST">
> > > > <SELECT name="OptionNumber" size="1"
> > onChange="this.form.submit();">
> > > >   <OPTION selected value="1">First</OPTION>
> > > >   <OPTION value="2">Second</OPTION>
> > > >   <OPTION value="3">Third</OPTION>
> > > > </SELECT>
> > > > </FORM>
> > > >
> > > > - Cyanide_7
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >This is a variation on the last question you folks
> > answered, where
> > > > >selecting
> > > > >an option from a drop-down menu submitted a form, and
> > the submission
> > > > >location was contained in the option value.
> > > > >
> > > > >This time, I'm trying to submit to the location specified
> > > > with ACTION, and
> > > > >selecting from a drop-down menu just initiates the
> > > > submission. My attempt
> > > > >below tries to work but can't seem to process the target
> > URL (path).
> > > > >Numerous variations have failed ("Object doesn't support
> > > > this property or
> > > > >method"). I would really appreciate a bug fix! Thank you.
> > > > >
> > > > ><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
> > > > >function SendTo_Page(object) {
> > > > >	var path = "process_form.html";
> > > > >	window.location.replace(path);
> > > > >	document.myform.submit();
> > > > >}
> > > > ></SCRIPT>
> > > > >
> > > > ><FORM name="myform" action="process_form.html" method="POST">
> > > > >	<SELECT name="OptionNumber" size="1"
> > > > onChange="SendTo_Page(this)">
> > > > >	<OPTION selected value="1">First</OPTION>
> > > > >	<OPTION value="2">Second</OPTION>
> > > > >	<OPTION value="3">Third</OPTION>
> > > > >	</SELECT>
>
>

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