JS "onclick" stops the given button from being passed to CGI

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 1 21:41:50 UTC 2009


Matthew Godycki wrote:
> 
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  I've added an 'onclick' event to an HTML form button, and now the value set in the 
>> button is not being passed to/picked up by my script. This is a problem because 
>> how I process the script depends on what button the user pressed.
>> Anyone run into this before? Any idea how to get around it? Removing the
>> 'onclick' function solves the problem, but I need the function, so... :)
> 
> Don't forget to make sure the script for the onclick event has a return value.  Ie,
> 'return true', etc.
> 
> Cheers,
> -M

Thanks, but with 'return true;' it still doesn't pass back the value of 
the button. =(

Madi
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