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Submit Button

Asked by: jutimes

here is my site... http://www.wrteam.com/contact.html the source is
<td height="2" colspan="2"> <div align="center">
                <input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="cabrioswap@aol.com">
                <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://www.wrteam.com/thanks.html">
                <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
              </div></td>

i thought everything looked good, but when i hit the submit button, nothing at all happens

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Answers

 

by: nickles80Posted on 2003-03-05 at 10:44:34ID: 8073878

You need form tags surrounding your form.  e.g.

<form name="formName" method="get(or post)" action="page.htm">

</form>

 

by: MatrixDudPosted on 2003-03-05 at 10:45:03ID: 8073883

you need <form> tags

 

by: jonnalPosted on 2003-03-05 at 10:47:01ID: 8073897

hi
youve got no <form></form> on that page
<form action="http://www.yoururl.com/page.htm" method="post">
   <input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="cabrioswap@aol.com">
               <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://www.wrteam.com/thanks.html">
               <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>



 

by: jonnalPosted on 2003-03-05 at 10:48:59ID: 8073907

the tags should enclose the whole form

 

by: climbindudePosted on 2003-03-05 at 11:54:25ID: 8074346

tut tut tut guys u shud kno ya dont need the tags... i am surprised.

<html>

<head>
<script language="javascript">
function submit() {
parent.location="http://www.wrteam.com/thanks.html"
}
</script>
<noscript><a href="http://www.wrteam.com/thanks.html">Submit</a></noscript>
</head>

<body>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" OnClick="submit()">
</body>

</html>

:D that dus it perfectly mate

 

by: climbindudePosted on 2003-03-05 at 11:58:30ID: 8074372

tut tut tut guys u shud kno ya dont need the tags... i am surprised.

<html>

<head>
<script language="javascript">
function submit() {
parent.location="http://www.wrteam.com/thanks.html"
}
</script>
<noscript><a href="http://www.wrteam.com/thanks.html">Submit</a></noscript>
</head>

<body>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" OnClick="submit()">
</body>

</html>

:D that dus it perfectly mate

 

by: CijoriPosted on 2003-03-05 at 12:06:46ID: 8074424

The solution with HTML form tags is better - it will always work. The solution posted above by climbindude will fail 1 in 10 times.

 

by: jonnalPosted on 2003-03-05 at 12:34:19ID: 8074657

???????????

so your not trying to submit a form then...

and theres no submit function on that page

 

by: nickles80Posted on 2003-03-05 at 12:37:10ID: 8074673

climbindude's solution does nothing but link to a new page with a button.  None of the form information is posted.

 

by: jonnalPosted on 2003-03-05 at 12:39:41ID: 8074705

yeah must have banged his head

 

by: mikkolsoftPosted on 2003-03-05 at 15:26:44ID: 8075944

The worst case is w/o the form tag some browsers like Netscape 4 just will not display the input tags at all.

Mikkol

 

by: jutimesPosted on 2003-03-06 at 07:16:46ID: 8080613

okay, i tried the <form> and first i was gettinga  404 error, but now its just reseting and at the bottom saying done.  but it never sends anything this is what i changed it to
<form><form action="http://www.wrteam.com/contact.html"
method="post">
  <input type="hidden" name="recipient"
value="cabrioswap@aol.com">
              <input type="hidden" name="redirect"
value="http://www.wrteam.com/thanks.html">
              <input type="submit" name="Submit"
value="Submit">
</form>

 

by: jutimesPosted on 2003-03-06 at 07:38:47ID: 8080810

okay i saw i had two forms so i changed it to

<form action="http://www.wrteam.com/contact.html"
method="post">
 <input type="hidden" name="recipient"
value="cabrioswap@aol.com">
             <input type="hidden" name="redirect"
value="http://www.wrteam.com/thanks.html">
             <input type="submit" name="Submit"
value="Submit">
</form>


and i am getting the error again, it wasn't 404, sorry it was:
Method Not Allowed
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /contact.html.
Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.wrteam.com Port 80

 

by: jonnalPosted on 2003-03-06 at 08:00:09ID: 8081017

hi

do you have a handler there for the form?
a cgi or asp  or perl ....

should be nothing wrong with POST (GET or mailto are other options)

but you have to have a page to handle the form



 

by: jutimesPosted on 2003-03-06 at 08:07:12ID: 8081093

well i have a formmail.php but i am not sure if its linked up right.  I can you check my source and tell me what i am still doing wrong?  i have perl and cgi on my server, but still very confused

 

by: jonnalPosted on 2003-03-06 at 08:15:30ID: 8081173

yeah
the action should target that

<form action="http://www.wrteam.com/formmail.php"
method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient"
value="cabrioswap@aol.com">
            <input type="hidden" name="redirect"
value="http://www.wrteam.com/thanks.html">
            <input type="submit" name="Submit"
value="Submit">
</form>

thats if formmail.php is in  the root of your site
you probally have a path to it like
action="http://www.wrteam.com/bin/contact/formmail.php"

and enclose all of the form in the <form></form> tages
otherwise the elements will get leftout

jonnal

 

by: jutimesPosted on 2003-03-06 at 12:26:56ID: 8083292

okay i did that, and it sends... but it doesn't send anything that they fill out?  i would recieve an email that just says submit; submit?  do i need to place the form action before all of my info to fill out?  please check out my source at http://www.wrteam.com/contact.html

 

by: nickles80Posted on 2003-03-06 at 13:03:55ID: 8083554

Just like jonnal said, make sure the <form> tags surround the entire form.  Currently you have it surrounding only your hidden fields and the button, which is why the only field you recieve is the submit value.

The easiest way to do this is to surround the entire table that your form is in with the form tags.

If this works, give credit to jonnal.  He helped you out alot more than I did.

 

by: jonnalPosted on 2003-03-06 at 13:17:09ID: 8083644

yeah nickles80 is right
you must enclose every element in the form between the 2 tags below

<form action="http://www.wrteam.com/formmail.php"
method="post">


</form>


easiest wat to do this is find the <body>tag and place the first tag just after it.
<body

then find the </body> tag and place the </form> just before it..

the body tag in your page lasts for about 3 lines

and the you have to remember to remove the original form tags

 

by: jutimesPosted on 2003-03-06 at 13:35:31ID: 8083770

Yes... Thank you so much, it works... i was putting <form> and i was confused with the <form action...> thanks so much

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