[nycphp-talk] Trapping JS errors in function called onSubmit
David Mintz
david at davidmintz.org
Thu May 8 12:29:23 EDT 2008
Amen to that -- Firebug is an immense help. Indispensable, even, if you are
doing Ajax and need to inspect the stuff coming back at you. Too bad FF 2.x
is such a prolifigate hog and waster of memory -- it's really killing me
here on Fedora 7.
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Tim Lieberman <tim_lists at o2group.com> wrote:
> Also: Firebug is your friend. Just set a breakpoint on the first line of
> your function, and step through.
>
> -Tim
>
>
> On May 6, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Kristina Anderson wrote:
>
> thanks!! will do.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Kristina Anderson
>>> <ka at kacomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi everyone --
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to build out a validation routine for my input forms and
>>>> found something that I like/find easy to extend. I added it as an
>>>> external script to my test page. I tested to make sure all the
>>>> subfunctions were being called by inserting alert boxes and they
>>>>
>>> are
>>
>>> being called. Unfortunately, the routine is not picking up my
>>>> empty/non valid fields and instead appears to be just
>>>>
>>> returning "true"
>>
>>> and submitting the form.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> My guess is that your javascript has errors which prevents the submit
>>> handler from returning false. This makes it really hard for
>>> debugging...
>>>
>>> Try the following when developing:
>>> <form onsubmit="validate(this);return false;">
>>> instead of
>>> <form onsubmit="return validate(this)">
>>>
>>> This way when "validate" errors out, the submission will still be
>>> trapped and you can see the errors in the console.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> -john c.
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