Page wont work when I add form tags!

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Hey.
I was trying to write a page yesterday where an admin can register a user. I wrote some javascript so that when the forename or surnames are off focus, a script is run to take the forename and surname, concatenate them and put them in the username box as a suggestion. The code worked fine until later when I added the form tags around the inputs (forgot to do it earlier). Code below:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<title>Admin ~ Users</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/admin/users.css" />

<script type="text/javascript">

function username(){

    if(document.getElementById('forename').value != ""){

        if(document.getElementById('surname').value != ""){

            name = document.getElementById('forename').value;

            name = name + document.getElementById('surname').value;

            name = name.toLowerCase();

            document.getElementById('username').value = name;

        }

    }

}

</script>

</head>
 
<body>

<div class='error'><?PHP echo str_replace("\'", "'", $_GET['error']); ?></div>

<br />

<form id="adduser" action="users_new_app.php" method="post">

<table>

<tr>

    <th>Field</th>

    <th>Value</th>

</tr>

<tr>

    <th>Forename</th>

    <td><input type="text" name="forename" size="50" id="forename" /></td>

</tr>

<tr>

    <th>Surname</th>

    <td><input type="text" name="surname" size="50" id="surname" /></td>

</tr>

<tr>

    <th>Username</th>

    <td><input type="text" name="username" size="50" id="username" onfocus="javascript:username();" /></td>

</tr>

....

</table>

</form>

</body>

</html>

I can't see anything wrong with it but it only doesn't work when the form tags are there, I took them away and it worked again...but naturally I need them to send the form!

May 30 '08 #1

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hsriat

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Change the name of the function to something else. eg suggestUsername()

It can't be same with an element name of a form.

May 30 '08 #2

gm04030276

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yip! that made it work! thank you sooo much! That was driving me nuts!

So apparently you can't have a function with the same name as an element in your form...who knew!

May 30 '08 #3

hsriat

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Recognized Expert Top Contributor

yeah.. apparently... event I just came to know when I tried your code.

May 30 '08 #4

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