JavaScript Forum

**somsahi** · 09-21-2006, 05:52 PM

ption value="state">state</html

ption>
<html

ptions property="facilityList"
name="facilityForm" />
</html:select>
Hi I have a form conatining values which is submitting
though above script.
Now I have put a default value as "state"
when user select any other value excpet default then
corrosponding page is displayed but if user choose default
value there is error obviously.
I simply want that if user select default value "state"
nothing should be submitted.
please be specific if anyhting need to be chnaged in
javascript as no idea about javascript
regards

**funkdaddu** · 09-21-2006, 10:52 PM

I don't know why you have html: inside all your codes and AFAIK "property" is not a valid property for an option tag. But this will check the form field before submitting:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html>

	<head>
		<title>Untitled Page</title>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
function submitF(fValue) {
	if (fValue != "") {
		document.facilityForm.submit();
	} 
}

//--></script>
	</head>

	<body>
<form action="/iata" name="facilityForm">
	Facility: <select name="state" size="1" onchange="submitF(this.value);">
				<option value="">Choose Your State:</option>
				<option value="NJ">New Jersey</option>
				<option value="NY">New York</option>
				</select>
	</body>

</html>

**mastercomputers** · 09-22-2006, 12:28 PM

I take it this is JSP, just for funkdaddu. I don't know if you understand namespacing, but prefixing elements with html: is just specifying that the element is that of html, usually only used when the default documents namespace is different. Basically in xml documents, you would have xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" which tells us we will be using xhtml elements prefixed by html. The default xmlns=... is probably a different value.

I'm no JSP expert, but it's possible in this case that the property value could exist. Though it's not correct in W3C standards but that does not mean a custom doctype can be used to make it a valid document.

You should disable the element and then try working with funkdaddu's code to help you.

Cheers,

MC

**somsahi** · 09-22-2006, 02:57 PM

for benefit of others

<script language="javascript">
function submitRegion()
{

var ind = document.regionForm.region.selectedIndex;

if ( ind == 0)
{
alert('Please select the required region ..');
return;
}
else
{
document.regionForm.submit();
}
}
</script>