Mandatory Fields

[TheB1GDude]

OK so its been a while since I have had to put some field checking code together, I thought what I had done was fairly simple but nothing ever is, is it!?

This my script code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
    function validate(frm) 
    {
        if (frm.lb_dept.value.length == 0)
        {
            alert("Please enter a Requestors Department.")
            frm.lb_dept.focus()
            return false
        }
 
        if (frm.lb_sub_dept.value.length == 0)
        {
            alert("Please enter a Requestors Sub-Departmen.")
            frm.lb_sub_dept.focus()
            return false
        }
 
        if (frm.lb_type.value.length == 0)
        {
            alert("Please enter a Request Type.")
            frm.lb_type.focus()
            return false
        }
 
        if (frm.lb_priority.value.length == 0)
        {
            alert("Please enter a Request Priority.")
            frm.lb_priority.focus()
            return false
        }
 
        if (frm.target_date.value.length == 0)
        {
            alert("Please enter a Target Date .")
            frm.target_date.focus()
            return false
        }
    }
//-->
</SCRIPT> 

So I check the length of 5 fields and return false if they are 0.

This is the first line of my form:

[HTML]<form id="logcallform " name="logcallfo rm" method="POST" onsubmit="retur n validate(logcal lform)" action="php/xmlhttp/logcall.submit. php">[/HTML]
My validation function never seems to get called!

I am a not 100% sure if I can leave the action tag in the form of if I need to put that in an else tag within the validation code?

Any help is much appreciated.

[gits]

hi ...

welcome to TSDN ...

try:

<form id="logcallform" name="logcallform" method="POST" onsubmit="return validate(this)" action="php/xmlhttp/logcall.submit.php">

that way we pass the correct reference to the form itself

kind regards