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iOS: How to programmatically trigger enter from a textfield in a webview

I am trying to add value to a text field in a web view using javascript. First, I add value using this code :
webView.evaluateJavaScript("document.getElementById('birds').value = 'username';", completionHandler:nil)
second I need to press Enter button to run next function. Here is text input's info:
<input type="text" name="submit" id="birds" placeholder="Write username or name and press enter" "="" class="ui-autocomplete-input" autocomplete="off">
How can I programmatically trigger enter button?

Just select the form and call submit
document.getElementById("myForm").submit();
This article could be worth a read though, you may need to select the submit button and call the onClick method instead, it depends how that particular form handles sending it's data.

Submit form with Javascript then handle with PHP

Not sure how I did this last time or else I wouldnt asking here but here is what I'm trying to do.
I have the usual basic form with a javascript function that will submit the form. Question is that after the form is submitted, I have an if statement in PHP that echos a that the form has been submitted. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
//PHP
if($_POST['submitDelete']){
echo "welcome, You form has been submitted";
}
//HTML
<form id="form_id" action="" method="POST">
First name: <input type="text" name="fname"><br>
Last name: <input type="text" name="lname"><br><br>
<input type="hidden" name="submitDelete" TYPE="submit">
</form>
<button type="button" onclick="myFunction()">Submit</button>
//JAVASCRIPT
<script>
function myFunction() {
document.getElementById("form_id").submit();
}
</script>
I can't seem to trigger the if statement in PHP. I also tried using the form name in the if statement and that didnt work either.

A form element must be told where to submit its data to when the submit event takes place. This is accomplished by setting the action attribute value for the form. Leaving that attribute empty does not implicitly set the form to post back to the current page. So, if you want to have a single page form/form processor, you need the action to be set to the current page file name:
<form action="currentPageFileName.php" method="post">
Next, there's no reason a single page can't have multiple forms on it. In that case you would need multiple submit buttons, each tied to a specific form. For this reason, you can't just drop a submit button anywhere on the page that you like unless you add the form attribute to the button to tie it back to the form it is supposed to trigger the submit for. Also, if you simply place the submit button within the form element it "belongs" to, you don't have to worry about this.
Also, you have some invalid HTML with:
<input type="hidden" name="submitDelete" TYPE="submit">
An element may not have the same attribute repeated within it (the case that you type the attribute in makes no difference since HTML is not case-sensitive). So, that code would wind up simply creating a submit button.
Lastly, if all you want to do with your submit button is cause its related form to be submitted, there is no need for JavaScript at all. That is what submit buttons do by default.
So, in the end, you can get rid of the JavaScript in your code completely and change your HTML to this:
<form id="form_id" action="currentFileName.php" method="POST">
First name: <input type="text" name="fname"><br>
Last name: <input type="text" name="lname"><br><br>
<input type="hidden" name="submitDelete" value="true">
</form>
<button type="submit" form="form_id">Submit</button>

Input field with onchange fails to trigger when user click button in another form

I have a page with multiple small forms on it. Each form has one input field that has an onchange function which will submit it's form to a url that returns a no data status.
Things work fine, submitting form after form, until the user clicks on a small form that has ONLY a submit button in it. This click works, but abandons the change in the previous field resulting in its onchange not firing the click at the bottom of the changed function fails (still trying to understand the firebug trace).
What's going on? is there a fix for my structure?
UPDATE:
First I tried simply delaying the action of the submit, but no luck.
I have hidden the and added an <input button> to the chain of "events" so that the focus has a place to come to rest before the real submit tries to happen -- the code below has been updated. So the question now becomes:
Is this as simple as it can be?
Script:
$(function() {
$('input,select').change(changed);
});
function changed(){
...
$(this).parents('form').find(':submit').click();
}
function doSubmit(elt, id)
{
$(elt).focus();
setTimeout(function(){
$(id).click();
}, 400);
}
One of may small forms:
<form class="clean" method="POST" action="QuoteProApp.php">
<input type="submit" value="field" name="btn_update" style="display: none;">
<input type="hidden" value="000242" name="quote_id">
<input type="text" maxlength="15" size="3" value="" name="q[cost][4][1][unit]">
</form>
The offending click goes into this form:
<form class="clean" method="POST" action="QuoteProApp.php">
<input type="hidden" value="000242" name="quote_id">
<input type='button' name='btn_close' value='Close' onclick='doSubmit(this,"#CLOSE");'>
<input id='CLOSE' type='submit' name='btn_close' value='Close' style='display:none;'>
</form>

Might be totally irrelevant, but your selector for the change event includes your submit input too. Can you change it to:
$('input[type="text"],select').change(changed);
to see if anything changes?

The solution turned out to be to create a button tag, set the focus explicitly to a it, and then set a timeout to click the real, but hidden, submit input tag. This allows the change in focus to run the submit associated with it and then continue with the explicit submit of the page.
The question has been updated to show this solution.

Know the name of the form in JavaScript

I have a button called "Next" that exists in a couple of asp.net pages. Actually it is in a User Control. When "Next" is clicked it calls a function CheckServicesAndStates in JavaScript. I want to know the page that has initiated this "Next" button click.
Can anyone tell me how is this possible?

Add a hidden field to the form then check for the existence of it:
<input type="hidden" name="sender" value="page-name" />

In a <button> event handler this.form.name is the name of the containing form.
<form name=foo>
<button type=button onclick="alert(this.form.name)">
</form>
alerts "foo" when clicked.

window.location.href
contains the current url.

AJAX/Javascript checkbox validation

this is my first post on stackoverflow, I hope you can help me out!
I need to have javascript/ajax validation for a checkbox on a form I am making,
the checkbox is deselected by default but when it is ticked, a javascript box should pop up displaying this text,
"You have selected the newsletter checkbox, are you sure you would like to receive our newsletter?"
when they click the submit button.
If they click yes, the the form should submit the newsletter checkbox info, if not, the form should still submit, but without the newsletter checkbox info.
I would really appreciate the help, thank you.

Welcome to SO!
You will need a Javascript function that runs when your form is submitted. From there, you will check if the box is checked, if so, use confirm() to show your message. If they select no, then you uncheck the box via Javascript and your form submits as usual.
Pseudo code:
<script language="javascript">
function checkNewsLetter()
{
var chk = document.getElementById('chk1');
if ((chk.checked) && (!confirm('Are you sure you wish to sign up?')))
chk.checked = false;
}
</script>
<form onsubmit="return checkNewsLetter();">
<input type="checkbox" id="chk1" name="chk1" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
I would also recommend checking out jQuery for all your Javascript needs, it's very easy to use.