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General Form Question

Thread began 4/11/2014 8:55 am by Art | Last modified 4/11/2014 11:34 am by Jason Byrnes | 1544 views | 11 replies |

Art

General Form Question

I know I'm going to feel really stupid after asking this...here it goes.

I have a form. It's very simple and it uses <button type"submit"...

It's used to send user to the search page. When I enter text and click the enter key, it work (sends to page and populates the GET). If I actually click the "SEARCH" button, it fails.

If I use input type="submit", it works both ways. What is tripping me up here?

<form action="searchpage.php" method="GET">
<input type="text" name="name" id="sprodtxt">
<button type="submit">SEARCH</button>
</form>

<!--<input type="submit" name="Search" id="Search" value="Search" alt="Search" />-->

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

What browser are you using?

IE is notorious for not passing button values.

on the searchpage.php, use the name text filed to trigger the search instead of using the button as the trigger:
<input type="text" name="name" id="sprodtxt">

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Art

Firefox and I've checked others and they do the same. I've validated the content and that checks out.

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Art

I created another page and put the form on that page and it works. Could a conflict with another form be causing this?
Could sending to "self" be causing it?

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

like I said previously though, don't use the button as a trigger in behaviors, use the text field instead.

button behaviors are not standard across all browsers, so they should not be relied ion as triggers, you cannot rely on the button being included with the other form data

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Art

Do you mean don't use this? <button type="submit">SEARCH</button>

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

no, i mean that on the searchpage.php page, yoou will have behaivors that use the button as a trigger:

something like:

if(isset($_GET['SEARCH'])) {

use the text box as the trigger instead:

if(isset($_GET['name'])) {


also, the button should have a name and value attribute:
<button type="submit" name="SEARCH" value="SEARCH">SEARCH</button>

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Art

$_GET['name'] is what I'm using to pull in results to the recordset on the searchpage.php

Could this fail because I use "post" in two other forms on the searchpage.php.

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Art

I found the problem. it was a jQuery AutoComplete script that was messing with it.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

ok, glad to hear you found the problem.

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