Re: IE & Form Submissions

I've seen it happen if one of the three conditions is present:

1.  The designer didn't name the two forms and the user filled out one form
and hit the RETURN key to submit it instead of clicking on the submit
button.  If the focus moved off that form for whatever reason, it would
either not submit or submit values to the other form.

2.  A closing <./form> tag hadn't been added or two submit buttons share the
same name

3.  There's JavaScript somewhere on the page that's producing an error.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Lyle" <nathan(at)upwebmaestro.com>
To: "hwg-techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 2:26 PM
Subject: IE & Form Submissions


> I've noticed an odd thing about IE5.5 (winme) lately, in that forms
> will sometimes not submit, though they *will* submit if I use another
> browser. These are basic forms, with a few text fields, a few text
> areas, etc. Nothing fancy. But sometimes clicking on the submit button
> does nothing. If I then do the exact same form submission from another
> browser, it will go with no problems.
>
> Has anyone heard of or seen anything similar? It seems like it must be
> an IE5.5 bug... but I can't rule out the possibility of a coding
> mistake somewhere on my part. But why would other browsers be okay
> with it? Usually IE is the permissive one.
>
> I'd send a link to an example of this happening, but it's a passworded
> section of a site, and setting up an example at this point would take
> more time that I have... but I wanted to know if anyone else had seen
> this happen.
>
> ~ The U.P. Web Maestro (Nathan Lyle)
>
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