I have a webpage with an "edit" form that appears in a modal dialog using Bootstrap.
When the form appears, I would like one of the input fields to be disabled at first, and to be enabled if the user clicks a checkbox.
The problem is, my browser (Chrome) is not reflecting the disabled attribute for any form element within the modal dialog. Any form element outside the modal works fine.
This also works fine on another webpage I have with the exact same logic. It is only misbehaving on this page.
I have run the entire page source through the W3 Validator for HTML5 and get no errors back.
Code for the input element:
<form role="form" id="frmEdit" action="group_edit.php" method="post">
<!-- ... -->
<input type="text" id="txtEditAlternate" class="form-control" name="alternate" disabled />
<!-- ... -->
</form>
I even tried to brute force disable it with jQuery on document ready; this does not work:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#txtEditAlternate").attr("disabled", true);
// ...
});
The only thing that does work when it comes to disabling the text field is when the checkbox is checked and then unchecked:
$("#chkbox").click(function() {
$("#txtEditAlternate").attr("disabled", !$(this).prop("checked"));
});
Although that kind of defeats the purpose, since the text field is supposed to be disabled until the checkbox is checked.
I have read that simply including disabled with no value is valid HTML5 (the validator did not even warn about this), and it works elsewhere.
I have tried everything I can think of, and can only speculate that it has something to do with the Bootstrap modal functionality. But like I said, the same logic works perfectly on another webpage I have.
And yes, I know Chrome likes to cache things. I have "hard-refreshed" many times, does not change anything.
Any suggestions?
try to use disabled="disabled":
<input type="text" id="txtEditAlternate" class="form-control" name="alternate" disabled="disabled" />
Use readonly attribute instead of disabled.
use prop instead of attr
$("#txtEditAlternate").prop("disabled", true);
I have forms with submit buttons that use javascript. The code looks following:
<form action="settings.php" method="post" id="myform" class="forms">
...some form fields here
<button type="submit" name="submit_ok" value="Save" onClick="document.myform.submit();">Save</button>
However, IE 10 (Win7 x64) displays this error when trying to submit form:
"Unable to get property submit of undefined or null reference"
All other browsers don't display any errors. If I click Yes when IE asks if I want to continue running scripts on this page, everything works well, but I need to remove this error badly.
All form controls (such as buttons, inputs, etc) have a property form that references the parent <form> element. You can therefore use
this.form.submit();
Why even bother doing it this way? Your submit button's default action will submit the form.
IE is probably looking for an element by name when traversing the document object. Your form has no name attribute.
I have a html form, with a custom file upload field. And by that I mean that I have moved the actual file field beyond the borders of the page with css, that I have a custom input field and button in place, and that I have a jquery click event attached to that custom button to trigger the file input dialog.
It all works fine, in every browser.
But I need to submit the form through javascript. And I got somewhere that IE remembers my actions with javascript as a malicious manipulation of the file input field and blocks my access with an error "access denied" when I invoke document.formName.submit().
Is there a way around this, because I have gone completely mad by trying to search for a solution. I seriously don't want to use the default file input field, as every browsers renders it differently and messes up my design..
code:
<form name="thisForm" onsubmit="return false;" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="index.cfm/somepage">
<input type="file" class="hidden" name="hidden" id="hidden" />
<input type="text" name="shown" id="shown" />
<button id="button">browse..</button>
<input type="submit" id="submitForm" />
</form>
<script>
$('button').click(function(){
$('#shown').val($('#hidden').val());
});
$('submitForm').click(function(){
validateForm();
});
function validateForm()
{
//regular expression validation against all other input fields in the form
//not the file input field
validateVAT();
}
function validateVAT()
{
//connect to external service to check VAT
submitForm();
}
function submitForm()
{
document.thisForm.submit();
}
</script>
UPDATE:
I just tried to first upload the file, before submitting the form, through ajax, but that also gave me the acces denied error.. >_>
I was having the same problem, and I solved it by using a styled <label> tag with a slight workaround in Firefox.
http://jsfiddle.net/djibouti33/uP7A9/
The Goals:
allow user to upload a file by using standard html file input control
hide standard html file input control and apply own styling
after user selects file to upload, automatically submit the form
The Browsers:
Firefox, Chrome, IE8/9, Safari
IE7 didn't work, but it might if you add it to the workaround detailed below.
The Initial Solution:
Hide the file input by positioning it offscreen. Important not to display:none as some browsers won't like this.
Add another styled element to the page (link, button).
Listen for a click on that element, then programmatically send a click to the file input to trigger the native 'file explorer'
Listen for the file input's onchange event (occurs after a user chooses their file)
Submit the form
The Problem:
IE: if you programmatically send a click to a file input in order to activate it (2), programmatically submitting the form (5) will throw a security error
The Workaround Solution:
Same as above
Take advantage of the accessibility features built in to the label tag (clicking on a label will activate it's associated control) by styling
a label tag instead of a link/button
Listen for the file input's onchange event
Submit the form
For some reason Mozilla browsers won't activate a file input by clicking on it's label.
For Mozilla, listen for the click on the label and send a click event to the file input to activate it.
Hope this helps! Check out the jsfiddle for details on the html/js/css used to make it all work.
I found the answer myself, After 2 days of crazy trial&error. I hope I can help somebody with this..
I removed the hidden file input field from my coldfusion page and replaced it by an iframe tag. That iframe tag linked to another coldfusion page, containing another form with the removed file input field.
Now when I use javascript to click the file input field, which is still hidden from view, it still gives the browse file dialog without a hitch. But when I use javascript to submit the form, through the iframe, miraculously, it submits the form in the iframe, making it possible to upload the file in some serverside scripting of your preference.
iframe code:
<form id="formFileUpload" class="formFileUpload" name="formFileUpload" method="post" action="../actions/act_upload_file.cfm" autocomplete="off" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" class="buttonFileHidden" id="inputFile" name="partnersLogo" />
</form>
iframe itself:
<iframe src="admin/dsp_file_upload.cfm" id="ifu" name="ifu" class="buttonFileHidden">
</iframe>
javascript click & submit:
ifu.document.formFileUpload.partnersLogo.click();
ifu.document.formFileUpload.submit();
If you're like me, and you don't want to use an iframe, and you weren't too keen on the label solution mentioned above, you can just position the original button above the styled button with an opacity of 0.
Using the example above, you would still have:
<input type="file" class="hidden" name="hidden" id="hidden" />
<input type="button" name="shown" id="shown" value="Add File" />
But .hidden would be defined like so:
.hidden {
position: absolute;
left: -150px;
opacity: 0;
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
}
Config: Set the opacity to 0.5 (or =50) to see the transparent element and tweak the left positioning.
Arguably just as hacky as the answers above, but a bootstrap-friendly solution, and in my case, the only one that worked.
I found a weird solution to solve this problem.
It thought about the js click thread. If it goes out of this thread, there no more security issues.
I chose to use window.setTimeout. see sample below:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
$("#<%= this.fuDoc.ClientID %>").bind('change', uploadFile);
$("#<%= this.btnUpload.ClientID %>").click(chooseFile);
});
function chooseFile() {
$("#<%= this.fuDoc.ClientID %>").click();
}
function uploadFile() {
var fu = $("#<%= this.fuDoc.ClientID %>");
if (fu.val() != "") {
window.setTimeout(function () {
<%= this.ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference(this.btnUpload, "") %>;
}, 100);
}
}
</script>
<asp:FileUpload ID="fuDoc" runat="server" style="display: none;" />
<asp:Button runat="server" ID="btnUpload" Text="upload" OnClick="btnUpload_Click" />
<asp:Label ID="lbltext" Text="" runat="server" />`
then, no more acces denied!
This is an old post but the problem still arises. This may not be working because jQuery kindly fails silently. I was having this problem and wondering why my hidden form would not submit and the file get uploaded. I started off by using jQuery, but then I went vanilla. It still didn't work but looked as though an exception was being thrown in my .click() function.
Running
try {
document.getElementById('formid').submit();
} catch (e) {
alert(e);
}
showed that we indeed were throwing an error, and quick research showed that this was because IE DOES NOT SUPPORT SIMULATED CLICKS ON A FILE INPUT. This means that when the form went to be posted, IE would refuse to post the form
Excuse the bold caps, but I know many people will see text and not read it
Have you tried
$('button').click(function(){
$('form[name=thisForm]').submit()
});
You need to change onsumbit='return false;' to onsubmit='return validateForm()'.
Then have validateForm() return true if the form passes your validation checks, or false if it does not.
The onsubmit='return false' is preventing the form from submitting via document.thisForm.submit(); as well as when the user clicks the submit button.
I commented these lines in j query.form.js then every thing works fine for me. Don't ask me the reason even i don't have the solution for that but it works for sure.
if (io.contentWindow.document.execCommand) {
try { // #214
io.contentWindow.document.execCommand('Stop');
} catch(ignore) {}
}
Consider the following example:
<form action="process.php" id="myForm">
.....
....... all my form elements
</form>
I first accessed my form elements this way:
function verifyForm() {
var frm_elements = myForm.elements;
//do something here
}
The above code worked well with the latest versions of Chrome and Internet explorer. However it always failed with Firefox. FF complained about the error : "Could not find the id myForm"
To get this working I replaced myForm.elements with document.getElementById('myForm').elements. It worked fine all the three browsers I tested.
I am just curious to know why did it fail on FF? Did I do anything wrong ?
modify this
<form action="process.php" id="myForm">
to this
<form action="process.php" name="myForm">
Because the DOM forms collection works off of name, therefore to access using the form name you need to add the name attribute to the tag. Which will allow the following statements to work.
document.forms["myform"]
document.forms.myform
document.myform
Here is some reference http://www.quirksmode.org/js/forms.html
Apparently Chrome and IE bind forms to document. This is not standard AFAIK.
> foo = 1
> window.foo
1
getElementById is the right way to go. Although document.forms.myForm also works for me.
Ok, I am developing a simple program to do xmlhttprequests so I can get a handle on how they work. On that page I have a simple text box, a label, and a button. When the button is clicked it sends out a request to another page via the javascript method, and it stores the response in the label.
(this is all the code in the body)
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<input type="text" id="text1" value="StuffInTheBox" name="text1"/>
<label id="label1">Please Enter Name.</label>
</div>
</form>
<button id="button1" onclick="checkName(text1.value,'')">BUTTON</button>
This works perfectly in google chrome. But when it came time to try it out in IE7 it gave me an error. It said "Error: 'text1' is undefined". I've been trying to tweak everything I can to see if it makes a difference but now I'm kind of lost.
Any help would be much appreciated
edit: checkname function per request
The method calls loadXMLDoc which creates the xmlhttprequest object, forking the construction for older IE who use ActiveX and modern browers who have it native. It also creates a method to watch the status change, and if it is done successfully it recalls checkname with checkName('',results)
function checkName(input, response)
{
if (response != ''){
// Response mode
message = document.getElementById('label1');
message.innerHTML = response;
}else{
// Input mode
loadXMLDoc("http://localhost/xmlTest/Return.aspx","input="+input);
}
}
In your JavaScript "checkName(text1.value,'')" it is unclear what text1.value is referencing. You're assuming it's referencing the DOM Object you've declared in your HTML and FireFox seems to make that assertion as well however IE doesn't. text1 could have easily been a reference to an object declared earlier in your JavaScript code.
var text1 = {value: ""};
Frankly I'm surprised that FireFox didn't throw an error.
When referring to DOM objects (i.e. HTML elements) you need to use the document.getElementById or document.getElementsByName methods.
The following example was tested and works in both FireFox and IE and I would assume to work in Chrome, Safari and Opera as well.
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<input type="text" id="text1" value="StuffInTheBox" name="text1"/>
<label id="label1">Please Enter Name.</label>
</div>
</form>
<button id="button1" onclick="checkName(document.getElementById('text1').value,'')">BUTTON</button>
"text1" is the id of the input, but you haven't declared that the text1 variable in the JavaScript refers to that.
Perhaps this will work for you:
<button id="button1" onclick="checkName(document.getElementById('text1').value,'')">BUTTON</button>
It uses document.getElementById to retrieve the input before trying to find its value.