User-entered field data lost if incorrect Captcha entered

Hi,

Is there a way, using CFSP, to retain entered data in additional form fields, if the incorrect Captcha or security question is entered? I've added Spry fields such as Address, City, State, Zip etc. to my contact form, and put them as Required. So you fill them in, but if you misread the Captcha image and it sends you back to the page, the additional fields are blank again. This is going to really annoy my visitors. Any solution for this?

Gail

set the inital value for the for elements to use the following code:

<?php echo(ValidatedField("contact","<elementName>")) ?>

where <elementName> is the name oif the form element.

so if you have a form element names Address, use:

<?php echo(ValidatedField("contact","Address")) ?>

Thanks, that did the trick.

Your validation/error script seems to override the built-in Spry script...so that even if they don't fill one of my new fields in, as long as your 4 are filled in correctly, the email sends anyway. I tried copying the validation code from one of yours (such as Contact_Name field) so that they would get an error message if they did not fill in one of my new fields. I just got lots of ugly code on the page. I assume this won't work unless I have your FormBuilder?

copying and pasting the code will not work in this way.

The spry validation should occur before any of the server validation, there should not be any conflict between the two.

can you send a link to your page where i can see the problem to investigate why the spry validation is not working.

Yes, thank you. Please go to contact.php to see what I am talking about.

Gail

when i view you page in Fire Fox, fire bug is reporting multiple errors in the js/prototype.js file, these may be causing spry validation to not work properly.


it is also reporting an error with this code in the SpryAssets/SpryValidationTextarea.js


if (this.options.maxChars > 0 && this.input.value.length > this.options.maxChars){
return;
}


try deleting that code.

I've done a search on the source code of my contact page in DW, as well as in the browser, and can't find the lines you tell me to delete anywhere.

What is firebug and how do I access it?

this code is in the SpryAssets/SpryValidationTextarea.js file, not on your contact page:

if (this.options.maxChars > 0 && this.input.value.length > this.options.maxChars){
return;
}

fire bug is an add on to firefox:
getfirebug.com/

OK, I found the line in the js and deleted it. The problem persists. What happens is that if I fill out a half-filled form (ignoring some of my added required fields), the "Required" message flashes on the screen for a second, then the email sends and I'm rerouted to the thank you page.

What would cause these javascripts to become corrupted? I'm not knowledgeable enough to have fiddled with them - I'm using them as-is from what DW provides. I sure would like to know where the errors are coming from.

there are also error reported in the js/prototype.js file, remove the reference to that file.

the errors in the js/prototype.js file may be the cause of the problem in the SpryAssets/SpryValidationTextarea.js file.

javascript can sometimes be a house of cards, when one script starts causing errors, it will cause the other scripts on the page to faile.

if that does not work, you will need to begin stripping the page one piece at a time to find the problem.