Re: IE & Form Submissions

by "Mike Taylor" <lonewolf(at)one.net>

 Date:  Sat, 24 Aug 2002 21:36:22 -0400
 To:  "hwg-techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
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Actually I was responding to Nathan's post on IE 5.5, not your post on
Netscape 6 and Topica.  Sorry.

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "cbirds" <cbirds(at)earthlink.net>
To: "Mike Taylor" <lonewolf(at)one.net>; "hwg-techniques"
<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: IE & Form Submissions


> Well here is the code for the only form on the page -- couldn't be
> simpler. Do you see any mistakes that would bring up a blank window?
> Should I change it to target="_blank"? That is the code they had,
> target="new_window". But I can change it if you think that does the trick.
>
> <.FORM ACTION="http://www.topica.com/partner/rsbn/remote/listowner/"
> METHOD="POST" TARGET="New_Window">
> <.INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="lists" VALUE="MarianHeller(at)topica.com">
> <.input type="text" size="30" maxlength="30" name="email" value="Your
> Email Here">
> <.input type="image" value="Submit" src="images/button.jpg" height="20"
> width="75" border="0" hspace="5">
> <./FORM>
>
>
> Mike Taylor hunted and pecked out this message on 8/24/2002 4:54 PM
>
> >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.
>
> NOPE.
>
> >2.  A closing <./form> tag hadn't been added or two submit buttons share
the
> >same name.
>
> NOPE.
>
> >3.  There's JavaScript somewhere on the page that's producing an error.
>
> See above...but what could it be?

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