I'm an idiot!!
I knew it was VBscript, but had just finished with another problem
that was Javascript (a menu, which is now working). And somehow my
brain hadn't woken up and...........monday morning.....and......
Anyway, thanks for the replies and the re-write!
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:45:06 +0200,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Munk_Skr=F8der?= <a@b.com> wrote:
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>Dave Blair wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> I have a problem with our intranet, we are planning to install Firefox
>> instead of Internet Explorer onto some new PCs.
>>
>> However, we can't get the following JavaScript to work in Firefox and
>> similar code is used in lots of the intranet stuff.
>> The code should bring up a message box with a warning and not allow
>> the user to continue unless they have filled in the entry in an html
>> form (the form is called 'myauthor').
>>
>>
>> if (checkempty(Document.myauthor.Candidate.Value,"You have left the
>> Candidate field empty."))= false then validation=false
>>
>>
>> If validation= True then
>> myauthor_OnSubmit = True
>> else
>> myauthor_OnSubmit = False
>> End if
>> End function
>>
>>
>> Function checkempty(ByVal FieldValue, ByVal message)
>> If FieldValue = "" then
>> MsgBox message, 8, Header
>> checkempty = False
>> else
>> checkempty = true
>> End if
>> end function
>>
>> No errors or warnings appear in the firefox JavaScript console. The
>> page just accepts the form and continues as if the checking code
>> weren't there at all.
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Dave
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>
>Hmm ... perhaps it's because most of the code, you've written isn't
>Javascript - but rather VBScript which is also supported in IE
>
>i've taken the liberty to rewrite it (sort of) in javascript...
>
>function checkEmpty( value, errMessage ) {
> if(value=="") {
> Alert( errMessage );
> return false;
> } else {
> return true;
> }
>}
>
>
>if( checkEmpty( document.forms['myauthor'].candidate.value, "You have
>left the Candidate field empty..." ) ) {
> /* validation ok - submit the form */
> document.forms['myauthor'].submit();
>} else {
> /* don't do anything - vaidation failed */
> return false;
>}
>
>/Søren Munk Skrøder
>Odense, Denmark
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