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

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 1 22:20:55 UTC 2009


Madison Kelly wrote:
> 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
> 
> In case it makes a difference, the button is an '<input type="image" ...>".
> 
> <input type="image" name="rescan" id="rescan" value="true" alt="Rescan" 
> src="/skins/interlink/images/icon_reload_small.png" 
> onclick="lockOnSubmit('line_info', 'rescan');" onMouseOver="stm(...)" 
> onMouseOut="htm()">
> 
> Madi


Found the problem... I disable the button to prevent multiple submits, 
but of course, this disables returning it's value. *sigh*.

Madi
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