Two OnSubmit Functions.

[BigResource]

First of all, I am newbie to Java, if you can offer me some help, please help with code, not suggestions.

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Trying to validate and then open the submission result in a pop up
window:


<form name=contact action="contact.cgi" method="POST" target="foo"
onsubmit="return checkFields(); window.open
('', 'foo', 'width=450,height=300,status=yes,resizable=yes,scrollbars
=yes');"

It validates fine but doesn't open the pop up window instead it goes
for a normal new window. If remove the validation part "return
checkFields", it works fine for pop up alone.

Any options that I can perform both functions at the same time?

############## Validation Code in Head ############
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"

<!-- Begin
function checkFields() {
missinginfo = "";
if (document.contact.name.value == "") {
missinginfo += "\n - Name";
}
if ((document.contact.email.value == "") ||
(document.contact.email.value.indexOf('@') == -1) ||
(document.contact.email.value.indexOf('.') == -1)) {
missinginfo += "\n - Email address";
}
if(document.contact.message.value == "") {
missinginfo += "\n - Message";
}

if (missinginfo != "") {
missinginfo ="_____________________________\n" +
"You failed to correctly fill in your:\n" +
missinginfo + "\n_____________________________" +
"\nPlease re-enter and submit again!";
alert(missinginfo);
return false;
}
else return true;
}
// End --
</script>

[Tygatur]

First of all, I am newbie to Java, if you can offer me some help, please help with code, not suggestions.

Java is not JavaScript ! And I think it's a bad idea just to ask for the code. You won't learn JavaScript this way. You need the knowlegde to change code the way you want it to be.

<form name=contact action="contact.cgi" method="POST" target="foo"
onsubmit="return checkFields(); window.open
('', 'foo', 'width=450,height=300,status=yes,resizable=yes,scrollbars
=yes');"

1. Always use "quotes" for attributes!
2. JavaScript has no multi-line-support. You need to write javascript commands into one line.
3. "return" makes the script stop and returns a value that is beeing calculated by checkFields(); So it's a bad idea to use return and then write another JavaScript command into the event handler.
4. the first parameter of window.open() is the URL of the document to be loaded.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"

<!-- Begin

5. Don't copy code. Write you own. Or look for a better tutorial.
6. Write HTML Tags in lowercase
7. instead of <script language="JavaScript"> write <script type="text/javascript">
8. Don't use HTML comments in the JavaScript area. Use the following:
<script type="text/javascript">/* <!CDATA[ */

/* ]]> */</script>

I know. It's hard to start with a new programming language. It appears to me that you are just copying most of the time. The bad news is that there is very much legacy code out there from a time where other JavaScript-methods were common. A good way to detect such legacy code is for example to look for <script language="... and for if(document.layers)
If you see one of these then don't use the code!