mckeegan375 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Hi Guys Was hoping someone could help me out with a (simple?) javascript validation i ahve on my form. I have a similar thing working on another form so cant understand why this isnt working. within the <head> tag i have: <script type="text/javascript"> function validateForm(newcat) { if(document.newcat.category.selectedIndex == 0) { alert("Please select a category"); document.forms.newcat.category.focus(); return false; } } </script> My form starts with: <form name="newcat" method="POST" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>" onSubmit="return validateForm(newcat);"> and there is a dropdown list called "category" within the form. Is it just something simple that im missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 onSubmit="return validateForm(newcat);" Here you're trying to pass a variable called "newcat" that doesn't exist. To pass a string you'd need to have quotes around it: onSubmit="return validateForm('newcat');" However it's easier to pass a special variable called "this", which represents the element's object, and use that within the function. So intead of calling document.newcat.category.selectedIndex for example, you'd use newcat.category.selectedIndex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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