Form validation pop up?

[JaymeNYC]

I have a long page on my site, and if some1 were to fill out my form wrong or correctly and press submit, the site will refresh and goto the very top of the page. My form and error/thank you message are at the bottom of the page by my form so they wouldnt be visible. Is there anyway to make the fom error/thanks div visible as a popup msg? I'm using lightwindow for images and it also works for pages. Don't know if it's possible or not to use this as the way the image is displayed, but heres a link to its examples here.

If that isn't possible, is there a way to stop the browser from resetting all the way to the top of my page?


If both of them dont work, any1 have a suggestion?

[paul_wilkins]

If you have an identifier on the error or thanks, you can use the fragment identifier to make the page jump down to there.

<div id="formMessage">
...
</div>

and navigate to page.html#formMessage

[JaymeNYC]

how do I do that after the submit button is pressed and the page reloads though? wherre would i place it?

[paul_wilkins]

That depends on how the form action is occuring.

If the form is going back to the same page you should be able to add #formMessage to the end of the action attribute.

<form method="post" action="form.php#formMessage">
...
</form>

[JaymeNYC]

That depends on how the form action is occuring.

If the form is going back to the same page you should be able to add #formMessage to the end of the action attribute.

<form method="post" action="form.php#formMessage">
...
</form>

its a php form, so i have this

<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">

but in my browser it comes up as this

<form action="/redo/index.php" method="post">

So I don't know how to edit it exactly, so it becomes

<form action="/redo/index.php#contactform" method="post">

do you have any idea b4 i ask in the php section?

[paul_wilkins]

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>#contactform" method="post">

[JaymeNYC]

thx! worx perfectly