I have this little piece of code:
<script>
$(window).bind('beforeunload', function() {
$.ajax({
async: false,
type: 'POST',
url: '/something'
});
});
</script>
I wonder, how could I disable this request when user hits the submit button.
Basically something like here, on SO. When your asking a question and decide to close the page, you get a warning window, but that doesn't happen when you're submitting the form.
Call unbind using the beforeunload event handler:
$('form#someForm').submit(function() {
$(window).unbind('beforeunload');
});
To prevent the form from being submitted, add the following line:
return false;
Use
$('form').submit(function () {
window.onbeforeunload = null;
});
Make sure you have this before you main submit function! (if any)
This is what we use:
On the document ready we call the beforeunload function.
$(document).ready(function(){
$(window).bind("beforeunload", function(){ return(false); });
});
Before any submit or location.reload we unbind the variable.
$(window).unbind('beforeunload');
formXXX.submit();
$(window).unbind("beforeunload");
location.reload(true);
Looking for Detect onbeforeunload for ASP.NET web application well I was,
I've to show warning message if some input control changes on the page using ASP.NET with Master Page and Content Pages. I'm using 3 content placeholders on the master page and the last one is after the form
<form runat="server" id="myForm">
so after the form closing tag and before the body closing tag used this script
<script>
var warnMessage = "Save your unsaved changes before leaving this page!";
$("input").change(function () {
window.onbeforeunload = function () {
return 'You have unsaved changes on this page!';
}
});
$("select").change(function () {
window.onbeforeunload = function () {
return 'You have unsaved changes on this page!';
}
});
$(function () {
$('button[type=submit]').click(function (e) {
window.onbeforeunload = null;
});
});
</script>
beforeunload doesn't work reliably this way, as far as binding goes. You should assign it natively
so I got it working like this bind and unbind didn't work out for me also With jQuery 1.7 onward the event API has been updated, .bind()/.unbind() are still available for backwards compatibility, but the preferred method is using the on()/off() functions.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.jsdelivr.net/jquery.dirtyforms/2.0.0-beta00006/jquery.dirtyforms.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('#form_verify').dirtyForms();
})
</script>
<title></title>
<body>
<form id="form_verify" action="a.php" method="POST">
Firt Name <input type="text">
Last Name <input type="file">
<input type="submit">
</form>
if you're using bind then use this:
$('form').submit(function () {
$(window).unbind('beforeunload');
});
This will be good for all form submit.
Super old question but might be useful to others.
Simply detaching the "beforeunload" from the "submit" event would not work for me - because the submit handler was being called even when there were errors in the form that the user had to fix. So if a user attempted to submit the form, then received the errors, then clicked to another page, they would be able to leave without the warning.
Here's my workaround that seems to work pretty well.
(function($) {
var attached = false,
allowed = false;
// catch any input field change events bubbling up from the form
$("form").on("change", function () {
// attach the listener once
if (!attached) {
$("body").on("click", function (e) {
// check that the click came from inside the form
// if it did - set flag to allow leaving the page
// otherwise - hit them with the warning
allowed = $(e.target).parents("form").length != 0;
});
window.addEventListener('beforeunload', function (event) {
// only allow if submit was called
if (!allowed) {
event.preventDefault();
event.returnValue = 'You have unsaved changes.';
}
});
}
attached = true;
});
}(jQuery));
This way, if the click to leave the page originated from inside the form (like the submit button) - it will not display the warning. If the click to leave the page originated from outside of the form, then it will warn the user.
I have this jQuery function injected on every page in order to disable submit buttons after they are clicked.
$('form').submit(function () {
var btn = $('input[type=submit]', this);
disableButtonOrLink.disableSubmit(btn);
btn = $('button[type=submit]', this);
disableButtonOrLink.disableSubmit(btn);
});
The problem is that I also have some backend validation that is sometimes attached to the form in the the shape of something like this
<form action="someAction" method="post" name="someForm" class="form"
onsubmit="var invalid=false;
invalid=someAction();
if(invalid){return false;}"
id="someForm">
The issue I am having that is occurs is that the ('form').submit action is always being called after the return false. The form isn't actually being submitted due to the return false; however this jQuery function is still being called after. Is there anyway to prevent this .submit from being called?
Just to clarify exactly what is happening:
The onSubmit on the form is being called;
The return false section is being hit and properly canceling the submit;
The ('form').submit is still being called after the onSubmit completes as if the form's submit wasn't canceled and is disabling buttons.
I would like to prevent the last step from occurring.
You can use JQuery to find those buttons inside form and use a method from preventing stuff that they normally do.
Example:
$("form button").on('click', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
});
I would probably try something like this
$('#someForm').on('submit', function(e) {
if ($(this).data('some-action')) {
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}
//... then disable buttons, etc
});
In this case you need to add the attribute data-some-action to the form, evaluated with whatever backend validation you are doing.
UPDATE
$('#someForm').on('submit', function(e) {
if ($(this).data('some-action') == 'error-message') {
e.preventDefault();
alert('error!');
return false;
}
if ($(this).data('some-action') == 'reload') {
e.preventDefault();
document.location.reload(true);
}
//... then disable buttons, etc
});
I have this form in my app and I will submit it via AJAX, but I want to use HTML for client-side validation. So I want to be able to force the form validation, perhaps via jQuery.
I want to trigger the validation without submitting the form. Is it possible?
To check whether a certain field is valid, use:
$('#myField')[0].checkValidity(); // returns true|false
To check if the form is valid, use:
$('#myForm')[0].checkValidity(); // returns true|false
Show html5 built-in error
if (! $('#myForm')[0].checkValidity()) {
$('#myForm')[0].reportValidity()
}
Keep in mind that, HTML5 validation is not supported in all browsers till now.
below code works for me,
$("#btn").click(function () {
if ($("#frm")[0].checkValidity())
alert('sucess');
else
//Validate Form
$("#frm")[0].reportValidity()
});
I found this solution to work for me.
Just call a javascript function like this:
action="javascript:myFunction();"
Then you have the html5 validation... really simple :-)
if $("form")[0].checkValidity()
$.ajax(
url: "url"
type: "post"
data: {
}
dataType: "json"
success: (data) ->
)
else
#important
$("form")[0].reportValidity()
from: html5 form validation
Here is a more general way that is a bit cleaner:
Create your form like this (can be a dummy form that does nothing):
<form class="validateDontSubmit">
...
Bind all forms that you dont really want to submit:
$(document).on('submit','.validateDontSubmit',function (e) {
//prevent the form from doing a submit
e.preventDefault();
return false;
})
Now lets say you have an <a> (within the <form>) that on click you want to validate the form:
$('#myLink').click(function(e){
//Leverage the HTML5 validation w/ ajax. Have to submit to get em. Wont actually submit cuz form
//has .validateDontSubmit class
var $theForm = $(this).closest('form');
//Some browsers don't implement checkValidity
if (( typeof($theForm[0].checkValidity) == "function" ) && !$theForm[0].checkValidity()) {
return;
}
//if you've gotten here - play on playa'
});
Few notes here:
I have noticed that you don't have to actually submit the form for validation to occur - the call to checkValidity() is enough (at least in chrome). If others could add comments with testing this theory on other browsers I'll update this answer.
The thing that triggers the validation does not have to be within the <form>. This was just a clean and flexible way to have a general purpose solution..
2022 vanilla JS solution
Pure JavaScript has all the functions you need for this. I know the question was about jQuery, but even the answers with jQuery use these functions, which are checkValidity() and reportValidity().
Test entire form
let form = document.getElementById('formId');
// Eventlistener can be another event and on another DOM object this is just an example
form.addEventListener('submit', function (event) {
// Only needed if event is submit, otherwise this line can be skipped
event.preventDefault();
// This is the important part, test if form is valid
if (form.checkValidity() === false){
// This is the magic function that displays the validation errors to the user
form.reportValidity();
return;
}
// Code if all fields are valid; continue form submit or make Ajax call.
})
Test specific field
checkValidity() and reportValidity() can not only be used on the form, but also on specific fields. No need to create a form or a dummy submit button if not needed.
// Get field of interest
let inputElement = document.querySelector("[name='" + inputName + "']");
// Check if the element is valid
if (inputElement.checkValidity() === false){
// If not, show the errors to the user
inputElement.reportValidity();
return;
}
// Nothing? Great, continue to the Ajax call or whatever
This has to be in a function called by an event listener to make sense, obviously.
May be late to the party but yet somehow I found this question while trying to solve similar problem. As no code from this page worked for me, meanwhile I came up with solution that works as specified.
Problem is when your <form> DOM contain single <button> element, once fired, that <button> will automatically sumbit form. If you play with AJAX, You probably need to prevent default action. But there is a catch: If you just do so, You will also prevent basic HTML5 validation. Therefore, it is good call to prevent defaults on that button only if the form is valid. Otherwise, HTML5 validation will protect You from submitting. jQuery checkValidity() will help with this:
jQuery:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#buttonID').on('click', function(event) {
var isvalidate = $("#formID")[0].checkValidity();
if (isvalidate) {
event.preventDefault();
// HERE YOU CAN PUT YOUR AJAX CALL
}
});
});
Code described above will allow You to use basic HTML5 validation (with type and pattern matching) WITHOUT submitting form.
You speak of two different things "HTML5 validation" and validation of HTML form using javascript/jquery.
HTML5 "has" built-in options for validating a form. Such as using "required" attribute on a field, which could (based on browser implementation) fail form submission without using javascript/jquery.
With javascrip/jquery you can do something like this
$('your_form_id').bind('submit', function() {
// validate your form here
return (valid) ? true : false;
});
var $myForm = $('#myForm ');
if (!$myForm[0].checkValidity()) {
$('<input type="submit">').hide().appendTo($myForm).click().remove();
}
To check all the required fields of form without using submit button you can use below function.
You have to assign required attribute to the controls.
$("#btnSave").click(function () {
$(":input[required]").each(function () {
var myForm = $('#form1');
if (!$myForm[0].checkValidity())
{
$(myForm).submit();
}
});
});
You don't need jQuery to achieve this. In your form add:
onsubmit="return buttonSubmit(this)
or in JavaScript:
myform.setAttribute("onsubmit", "return buttonSubmit(this)");
In your buttonSubmit function (or whatver you call it), you can submit the form using AJAX. buttonSubmit will only get called if your form is validated in HTML5.
In case this helps anyone, here is my buttonSubmit function:
function buttonSubmit(e)
{
var ajax;
var formData = new FormData();
for (i = 0; i < e.elements.length; i++)
{
if (e.elements[i].type == "submit")
{
if (submitvalue == e.elements[i].value)
{
submit = e.elements[i];
submit.disabled = true;
}
}
else if (e.elements[i].type == "radio")
{
if (e.elements[i].checked)
formData.append(e.elements[i].name, e.elements[i].value);
}
else
formData.append(e.elements[i].name, e.elements[i].value);
}
formData.append("javascript", "javascript");
var action = e.action;
status = action.split('/').reverse()[0] + "-status";
ajax = new XMLHttpRequest();
ajax.addEventListener("load", manageLoad, false);
ajax.addEventListener("error", manageError, false);
ajax.open("POST", action);
ajax.send(formData);
return false;
}
Some of my forms contain multiple submit buttons, hence this line if (submitvalue == e.elements[i].value). I set the value of submitvalue using a click event.
This way works well for me:
Add onSubmit attribute in your form, don't forget to include return in the value.
<form id='frm-contact' method='POST' action='' onSubmit="return contact()">
Define the function.
function contact(params) {
$.ajax({
url: 'sendmail.php',
type: "POST",
dataType: "json",
timeout: 5000,
data: { params:params },
success: function (data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
// callback
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
console.log(jqXHR.responseText);
}
});
return false;
}
I had a rather complex situation, where I needed multiple submit buttons to process different things. For example, Save and Delete.
The basis was that it was also unobtrusive, so I couldn't just make it a normal button. But also wanted to utilize html5 validation.
As well the submit event was overridden in case the user pressed enter to trigger the expected default submission; in this example save.
Here is the efforts of the processing of the form to still work with/without javascript and with html5 validation, with both submit and click events.
jsFiddle Demo - HTML5 validation with submit and click overrides
xHTML
<form>
<input type="text" required="required" value="" placeholder="test" />
<button type="submit" name="save">Save</button>
<button type="submit" name="delete">Delete</button>
</form>
JavaScript
//wrap our script in an annonymous function so that it can not be affected by other scripts and does not interact with other scripts
//ensures jQuery is the only thing declared as $
(function($){
var isValid = null;
var form = $('form');
var submitButton = form.find('button[type="submit"]')
var saveButton = submitButton.filter('[name="save"]');
var deleteButton = submitButton.filter('[name="delete"]');
//submit form behavior
var submitForm = function(e){
console.log('form submit');
//prevent form from submitting valid or invalid
e.preventDefault();
//user clicked and the form was not valid
if(isValid === false){
isValid = null;
return false;
}
//user pressed enter, process as if they clicked save instead
saveButton.trigger('click');
};
//override submit button behavior
var submitClick = function(e){
//Test form validitiy (HTML5) and store it in a global variable so both functions can use it
isValid = form[0].checkValidity();
if(false === isValid){
//allow the browser's default submit event behavior
return true;
}
//prevent default behavior
e.preventDefault();
//additional processing - $.ajax() etc
//.........
alert('Success');
};
//override submit form event
form.submit(submitForm);
//override submit button click event
submitButton.click(submitClick);
})(jQuery);
The caveat to using Javascript is that the browser's default onclick must propagate to the submit event MUST occur in order to display the error messages without supporting each browser in your code.
Otherwise if the click event is overridden with event.preventDefault() or return false it will never propagate to the browser's submit event.
The thing to point out is that in some browsers will not trigger the form submit when the user presses enter, instead it will trigger the first submit button in the form. Hence there is a console.log('form submit') to show that it does not trigger.
You can do it without submitting the form.
For example, if the form submit button with id "search" is in the other form . You can call click event on that submit button and call ev.preventDefault after that.
For my case I validate form B from Form A submission.
Like this
function validateFormB(ev){ // DOM Event object
//search is in Form A
$("#search").click();
ev.preventDefault();
//Form B validation from here on
}
$(document).on("submit", false);
submitButton.click(function(e) {
if (form.checkValidity()) {
form.submit();
}
});
$("#form").submit(function() { $("#saveButton").attr("disabled", true); });
not a best answer but works for me.
I know this has already been answered, but I have another possible solution.
If using jquery, you can do this.
First create a couple of extensions on jquery so you can resuse these as needed.
$.extend({
bypassDefaultSubmit: function (formName, newSubmitMethod) {
$('#'+formName).submit(function (event) {
newSubmitMethod();
event.preventDefault();
}
}
});
Next do something like this where you want to use it.
<script type="text/javascript">
/*if you want to validate the form on a submit call,
and you never want the form to be submitted via
a normal submit operation, or maybe you want handle it.
*/
$(function () {
$.bypassDefaultSubmit('form1', submit);
});
function submit(){
//do something, or nothing if you just want the validation
}
</script>
This worked form me to display the native HTML 5 error messages with form validation.
<button id="btnRegister" class="btn btn-success btn btn-lg" type="submit"> Register </button>
$('#RegForm').on('submit', function ()
{
if (this.checkValidity() == false)
{
// if form is not valid show native error messages
return false;
}
else
{
// if form is valid , show please wait message and disable the button
$("#btnRegister").html("<i class='fa fa-spinner fa-spin'></i> Please Wait...");
$(this).find(':submit').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
}
});
Note: RegForm is the form id.
Reference
Hope helps someone.
This is a pretty straight forward way of having HTML5 perform validation for any form, while still having modern JS control over the form. The only caveat is the submit button must be inside the <form>.
html
<form id="newUserForm" name="create">
Email<input type="email" name="username" id="username" size="25" required>
Phone<input type="tel" id="phone" name="phone" pattern="(?:\(\d{3}\)|\d{3})[- ]?\d{3}[- ]?\d{4}" size="12" maxlength="12" required>
<input id="submit" type="submit" value="Create Account" >
</form>
js
// bind in ready() function
jQuery( "#submit" ).click( newAcctSubmit );
function newAcctSubmit()
{
var myForm = jQuery( "#newUserForm" );
// html 5 is doing the form validation for us,
// so no need here (but backend will need to still for security)
if ( ! myForm[0].checkValidity() )
{
// bonk! failed to validate, so return true which lets the
// browser show native validation messages to the user
return true;
}
// post form with jQuery or whatever you want to do with a valid form!
var formVars = myForm.serialize();
etc...
}
I think the best approach
will be using jQuery Validation plugin which uses best practice for form validation and it also has good browser support. So you don't need to worry about browser compatibility issues.
And we can use jQuery validation valid() function which checks whether the selected form is valid or whether all selected elements are valid without submitting the form.
<form id="myform">
<input type="text" name="name" required>
<br>
<button type="button">Validate!</button>
</form>
<script>
var form = $( "#myform" );
form.validate();
$( "button" ).click(function() {
console.log( "Valid: " + form.valid() );
});
</script>
According to the question html5 validity should be validate able using jQuery at first and in most of the answer this is not happening and the reason for this is as following:
while validating using html5 form's default function
checkValidity();// returns true/false
we need to understand that jQuery returns object array, while selecting like this
$("#myForm")
therefore, you need to specify the first index to make checkValidity() function work
$('#myForm')[0].checkValidity()
here is the complete solution:
<button type="button" name="button" onclick="saveData()">Save</button>
function saveData()
{
if($('#myForm')[0].checkValidity()){
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "save.php",
data: data,
success: function(resp){console.log("Response: "+resp);}
});
}
}
I have a form that uploads a file and targets an iframe on the page. When the user clicks submit, I want the file contents to "clear" out.
I tried this
$('#imageaddform').submit(function(){
$('#imagefile').val('');
});
But it clears the form before the submit, so nothing is ever uploaded.
Is how do I clear after submit?
If you have no other handlers bound, you could do something like this:
$('#imageaddform').submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault(); // don't submit multiple times
this.submit(); // use the native submit method of the form element
$('#imagefile').val(''); // blank the input
});
Lonesomeday's solution worked for me but for Google Chrome I found it would still submit empty form data unless I added a timeout like this:
$('#imageaddform').submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault(); // don't submit multiple times
this.submit(); // use the native submit method of the form element
setTimeout(function(){ // Delay for Chrome
$('#imagefile').val(''); // blank the input
}, 100);
});
You could do something like this:
$('#imageaddform').submit(function(){
setTimeout(function() {
$('#imagefile').val('');
},100);
});
How are u submitting the form? if this is normal form post then then page wont exist in that case i am wondering if u are looking to clear the form before the page refreshses so that when the user comes back he doesn't see the values populated.
If the form is submitted by ajax then you can
function(){
$('form1')[0].submit();
clearForm();
}
Did i miss the question?
At the end of the document I have:
<script>
$("#submitEvent").click(function() {
$("#eventForm").submit();
});
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#eventForm').submit(function() {
console.log("I am on submit");
}); });
</script>
Now submitEvent is button which is not within a form so and the reason for having on .click event.
When button is pressed the form submit is triggered correctly:
<form id="eventForm" action="${contextPath}/dashboard/event/new"
method="post">
Now I expect another event to be fired when submit is fired which actually is ignored for some reason. Instead of console.log I am not surprisingly going to use ajax, but even console.log does not print anything so the event is not triggered..
Update, did as you suggested still nothing :-) :
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#submitEvent").click(function() {
$("#eventForm").submit();
});
$('#eventForm').submit(function() {
console.log("I am on submit");
});
});
If your reason for saying the form submit handler isn't being called is that you don't see the output in the console, remember that submitting a form completely tears down and replaces the page. You probably don't have time to see the log message before the console gets cleared.
In a comment, you said:
Hm, so how can I check if ajax will be called.
You can check by setting a breakpoint on your console.log statement and seeing if the breakpoint gets hit. Or if you want to debug 1990's-style, use an alert.
But note that doing ajax from within a form submit handler, if the form's result will replace the page, is unreliable. (If the form's result won't replace the page, you're probably fine.) This is because ajax is asynchronous, meaning your submit handler could start it, but it wouldn't have time to finish before being cancelled by the teardown.
Try this...
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#submitEvent").click(function() {
$("#eventForm").submit();
});
$('#eventForm').submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
console.log("I am on submit");
});
});
It will stop the form submitting so you can see, for now, if the event is actually being triggered or not.
It may simply be that the form being submitted is reloading the page before you see the console output.
You just need to move your code inside the ready function
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#submitEvent").click(function() {
// run ajjax code here
});
$('#eventForm').submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault(); // stops the page from submiting
console.log("I am on submit");
});
});
</script>
I updated the code, you don't need to submit the form. just run ajax on click.