[Firefox Submitting Form]

Larry,

 

I have 3 of your books and am considering 2 more. Thanks!

 

I have really been struggling with AJAX.

 

One of the main things that is causing me problems is that Firefox insists on submitting the form(s) even when I return a "false" from the javascript. The only way I have been able to stop this is by getting rid of the submit inputs which means I have to use workarounds, like a button input, for all the scripts from your book to deal with the changes to the form. I have been able to get an autocomplete search to work, so I'm not completely failing, but this has become more problematic with the scripts to add a record to a database table.

 

This is what I currently have for one of my scripts:

 

record add form:

 

<form method="post" id="member_add_form_ajax" onsubmit="member_add_xml()">

 

<input type="submit" value="Add Member" >

 

..text field inputs....

 

</form>

 

Then for the javascript:

 

 

function member_add_xml()

{

// Calls the ajax object from ajax.js

var member_add_ajax = getXMLHttpRequestObject();

 

// Check for ajax object; if none, don't use AJAX

if(member_add_ajax)

{

// Check to see if the page has an element with an id of "results"

if(document.getElementById('member_add_ajax_results'))

{

//window.alert('hello 1');

 

return false;

}

}

}

 

It reaches the window.alert, so I know it's getting that far. But the form submits.

 

Obviously, this code doesn't do anything, I've taken out everything between the window.alert and the return false; so that I can see if I can get the form to stop submitting without anything to trip it up.

 

If I could at least get the form to stop submitting, I would then not have to modify your scripts so much and could possibly get it to work.

 

Thank you for any help!

 

Jack