Hi - I have a form on my site that is submitted the usual way, with a button in the form. It works fine and verifies that the email in the form is properly filled out. Like this:

<form action="EmailAction.cfm" method="post" name="SupportForm" onSubmit="return CheckSupportForm(this)">
<input class="forms1" type="text" name="Email" size="25" tabindex="1">
<input type="image" name="SubmitFormBut" src="img/Submit.gif" alt="" tabindex="34" align="absmiddle" border="0" height="22" width="91">
</form>


But I need to replace the button with a javascript button (so that people that have javascript turned off cannot submit the form). But when I do it this way, although the button will submit just fine, it does not verify the email format. Does anyone have an answer to why it does not verify?

<form action="EmailAction.cfm" method="post" name="SupportForm" onSubmit="return CheckSupportForm(this)">
<input class="forms1" type="text" name="Email" size="25" tabindex="1">
<img src="img/Submit.gif" width="91" height="22" border="0" name="SubmitFormBut">
</form>
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript1.2">
function submitform()
{
document.SupportForm.submit();
}
</SCRIPT>

You could put the javascript in the action attribute (although this is bad coding practice).
Ex: <form action="javascript:CheckAndSubmitForm(this);" method="POST">

HTH,
-Trey

Hi - I have a question about a form I am creating. Basically it is very simple but needs to verify that the email address is a valid type. My form starts like this:

<form action="EmailAction.cfm" method="post" name="SupportForm" onSubmit="return CheckSupportForm(this)">

I want it to end with the <input type="Button"> so that it will only work if they have javascript turned on. But it doesn't work. You can click it but it goes nowhere. It works if I use <input type="image" src="whatever.gif">.

Does anyone have any pointers? Is it because I use onSubmit in the beginning of the form, because I need to use onSubmit="return CheckSupportForm(this)".

Use a submit button.

<input type="submit" value="Submit" />

Thanks - but my current form action is action="EmailAction.cfm" which send out a formatted email. How would I implement your method but still go to my EmailAction.cfm?

That works when I have javascript on. But when I turn my browser's javascript off, it throws me to an error page. I want it to just not work. To go nowhere.