crazysaint Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 the folowing is an extract of a code that i wouild like some help with. i want on submit the code to give a warning that some fields are null and that the user should fill them in. function ref() { var reference; reference=document.myForm.file_ref.value; if (reference=="") { window.prompt('All fields must be filled'); return false; window.focus=document.myForm.file_ref.file_ref; } esle { return true; } } </script> </head> <body> <?pHp include "connection.php"; ?> <div align="center"> <p>DATA CAPTURE INTERFACE </p> </div> <?php mysql_select_db("lands",$connection) or die(mysql_error()); $sql="select file_ref from data_entry order by file_ref desc limit 1"; $result=mysql_query($sql); //$num=mysql_numrows($result); if ($result==0) { $fr="1"; } else { $select=mysql_fetch_array($result); $field=$select['file_ref']; $fr=++$field; } ?> <p> </p> <p> </p> <form id="form1" method="post" action="" onsubmit="return ref()"> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellReal Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 function ref() { var e = document.getElementById('form1'); for (i = 0; i < e.childNodes.length; i++) { if (e.childNodes[i].tagName.toLowerCase().match(/(?:input|select|textarea)/)) { if (!e.childNodes[i].value) { alert('Missing Fields'); return false; } } } } Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazysaint Posted July 2, 2009 Author Share Posted July 2, 2009 RussellReal thanks for the help but am still having a small problem.let me post the entire form that is being affected by the onsubmit code <td><select name="series"> <?php $sql="select * from series"; $result=mysql_query($sql); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $val1=$row['series']; ?> <option value="<?php echo $val1; ?>"><?php echo $val1; ?></option> <?php } ?> </select> </td> <td height="33"><input name="file_ref" type="text" value="" size="5" /></td> <td><select name="type"> <?php $sql="select * from file_types"; $result=mysql_query($sql); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $val1=$row['type']; ?> <option value="<?php echo $val1; ?>"><?php echo $val1; ?></option> <?php } ?> </select> <input name="subj_ref" type="text" size="30" /></td> <td><select name="file_miss"> <option value="YES">Y</option> <option value="NO" selected="selected">N</option> </select> </td> <td><select name="restore"> <option value="YES">Y</option> <option value="NO" selected="selected">N</option> </select></td> <td><select name="investigate"> <option value="YES">Y</option> <option value="NO" selected="selected">N</option> </select></td> <td><select name="remarks"> <?php $sql="select * from remarks"; $result=mysql_query($sql); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $val1=$row['remarks']; ?> <option value="<?php echo $val1; ?>"><?php echo $val1; ?></option> <?php } ?> </select></td> <td><select name="locality"> <?php $sql="select * from locality"; $result=mysql_query($sql); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $val1=$row['locality']; ?> <option value="<?php echo $val1; ?>"><?php echo $val1; ?></option> <?php } ?> </select></td> <td><input name="vol_no" type="text" size="5" /></td> </tr> </table> <p> <input name="submit" type="submit" /> <input type="hidden" name="subject_repl" /> <input type="hidden" name="loc_repl" /> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellReal Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 honestly my javascript shoudl work basically on any form >.> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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