I'm learning Javascript, and this basic redirect isn't doing anything.
The alert fires, but no version of 'page redirect' code I've tried seems to be working.
I've tried every version of location.href, document.location.href, window.location, etc etc....
I just want to switch urls when user input == '85.5'. But despite hours of trying, it just won't work.
What am I missing here?
Thanks!
I'm calling this function in a form element like so:
<form onsubmit="showInput()">
<input type="text" id="question" name="inputz">
</form>
function showInput(){
var InputNumber = document.getElementById("question").value;
if(InputNumber == '85.5'){
alert("You escaped"); //this works
alert(InputNumber); //this works
window.location.href ='/Survive_The_Swamp3.html'; //this does NOT work
return false;
}
else {
alert(InputNumber);
document.location.href ="https://i.redd.it/twrza9clfsh21.jpg"; //also doesn't work
return false;
}
}
This has nothing to do with window.location.href.
You don't have anything that submits the form. So the onsubmit handler is never called.
Forms are submitted when there's an <input type="submit"> which will be rendered as a button. Forms can also be submitted if there's a <button> inside the form. If neither of these exist then the form is never submitted unless you manually submit the form by calling the form's .submit() method in javascript.
For your code to trigger you need to wait for the <input> change event:
<input type="text" id="question" name="inputz" onchange="showInput()">
However there is a subtle issue with how onchange events work. They are triggered BEFORE the input gets the new value. As such when your user type "85.5" your event handler will see "85.". To get the current value you need to read it from the event object:
function showInput(event){
var InputNumber = event.target.value;
//...
The reason onchange works this way is to allow you to cancel the event thus preventing the <input> from getting the value. For example you can use this feature to prevent the user from entering something that is not a number.
I appreciate the feedback and information from everybody; however the only thing I was able to finally get to work was using the following configuration:
<form onsubmit="showInput(); return false"> //maybe return false here made the difference?
<input type="text" id="question" name="inputz" >
</form>
function showInput(){
var InputNumber = document.getElementById("question").value;
if(InputNumber == '85.5'){
alert("You escaped");
window.location.href='/Survive_The_Swamp3.html';
}
I am using a JavaScript library for client-side form validation (https://github.com/cferdinandi/bouncer). It works very well but has one strange behaviour that I don't understand.
I have two buttons for the form submit, each with a different value. Without validating this form using the library I will retrieve the exact value on server-side. But when I use the library for validation the value will disappear. All other form values are available. I checked the whole library code and found out that "event.preventDefault()" seems to be the problem.
When I remove this line everything is fine but of course, form validation won't work.
Someone has any idea?
var submitHandler = function (event) {
// Only run on matching elements
if (!event.target.matches(selector)) return;
// Prevent form submission
event.preventDefault();
// Validate each field
var errors = publicAPIs.validateAll(event.target);
// If there are errors, focus on the first one
if (errors.length > 0) {
errors[0].focus();
emitEvent(event.target, 'bouncerFormInvalid', {errors: errors});
return;
}
// Otherwise, submit if not disabled
if (!settings.disableSubmit) {
event.target.submit();
}
// Emit custom event
if (settings.emitEvents) {
emitEvent(event.target, 'bouncerFormValid');
}
};
<button class="" name="page[__page]" type="submit" value="0">back</button>
<button class="" name="page[__page]" type="submit" value="2">next</button>
The issue, accordingly to standards, seems to be that the submitter is not forwarded, when .submit() is invoked:
If any of the following is true:
The field element is a button but it is not submitter.
Then continue.
This case seems to be resolvable moving that information into an hidden field, and use the submitter, which is either next, or prev, to populate its value.
Example
document.body.innerHTML = `
<form>
<input type="hidden" name="page[__page]">
<button class="" type="submit" value="0">back</button>
<button class="" type="submit" value="2">next</button>
</form>
`;
document.body.firstElementChild.addEventListener('submit', e => {
e.preventDefault();
var page = e.target.querySelector('input[name="page[__page]"]');
page.value = e.submitter.value;
e.target.submit();
});
At this point, the page will be passed around as expected, and your issue should be resolved.
P.S. you could also explore form.repostValidity() and use e.preventDefault() only if the report returns false.
I have a number of fields that are either filled (inputs) or selected (dropdowns) that working together to create a new page.
I'm attempting to validate the entries and prevent the page creation if anything is wrong with the inputs. No form is being used.
The problem is the $("#netsubmit").submit(function( event )) never gets run when the submit is clicked. No errors are thrown, no indication why its not processing.
My html for the input is:
<input id="netsubmit" type="submit" value="Submit" onClick="newNet()"
title="Submit The New Net">
My JQuery javascript is:
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#netsubmit").submit(function( event ) {
alert("in it");
var callentered = $("#callsign").val();
if (callentered == "") {
event.preventDefault();
alert("Please enter a call sign first.");
$("#callsign").focus();
}
});
});
It is likely not working because as you said you aren't using a form element. From the jquery docs:
The submit event is sent to an element when the user is attempting to submit a form. It can only be attached to form elements
You could use the function specified by your onclick event onClick="newNet()" to validate the data.
.submit() can only be used with <form> elements, as stated in the documentation:
It can only be attached to <form>elements.
If you do not want to use the form tag, you can switch to using .click() instead, like so:
$("#netsubmit").click(function(event) {
alert("in it");
});
If you read the documentation for submit on MDN it explicitly says
The submit event is fired when a form is submitted.
Note that submit is fired only on the form element, not the button or
submit input. (Forms are submitted, not buttons.)
if you do
<form id="myform">
<input id="netsubmit" type="submit" value="Submit" onClick="newNet()" title="Submit The New Net">
</form>
and then change the code
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#myform").submit(function( event ) {
alert("in it");
var callentered = $("#callsign").val();
if (callentered == "") {
event.preventDefault();
alert("Please enter a call sign first.");
$("#callsign").focus();
}
});
});
it works fine
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 the following problem, I made a form using HTML with some input fields.
I also made the submit button disabled using the following JS code:
if(document.forms['form'].inputfield1.value == "")
{
document.forms[0].submit.disabled=true;
}
else {
document.forms[0].submit.disabled=false;
}
This works fine, whenever I load the page the button is disabled, but when I fill in something it doesn't get enabled.
But whenever I place a value in my input field like so:
<input type="text" name="inputfield1" size="3" maxlength="3" value="12345">
And I load the page the button is enabled, proving the JS code works just fine.
I don't know if there is anyway to make the button refresh after someone used an input field or anything like that.
I'm completely new to JS and PHP, any help is greatly appreciated!
You need to use a javascript event to detect when the value changes and to run the validation. I would suggest onkeyup for this as you will likely want it as the user is typing.
This can be done with javascript as follows...
Create an onload event to trigger when the page loads, this will register the events handlers for your input and call the initial check to set the default state:
window.onload = function(){
document.getElementsByName("inputfield1")[0].onkeyup = validateForm;
validateForm();
};
Then your function to do the validation:
function validateForm(){
if(document.forms['form'].inputfield1.value == "")
{
document.forms[0].submit.disabled=true;
}
else {
document.forms[0].submit.disabled=false;
}
}
You can use onkeyup function to do this simply
<input type="text" name="inputfield1" size="3" maxlength="3" value="12345" onkeyup='check()'>
function check() {
if(document.forms['form'].inputfield1.value == ""){
document.forms[0].submit.disabled=true;
}
else {
document.forms[0].submit.disabled=false;
}
}