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Submit form without page reloading
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I have a function built in JavaScript that I want to be executed after a form submit is hit. It basically changes the look of the page completely. But I need a variable from the search box to still go through to the JavaScript. At the moment it flashes and resets what was there because it reloads the page.
So I set up a return false in my function which keeps it from doing that but the variable I want doesn't get submitted through the form. Any ideas on what I should do to get it? It's okay for the page to refresh as long as the updateTable()
function works and isn't reset by the page reset.
<form action="" method="get" onsubmit="return updateTable();">
<input name="search" type="text">
<input type="submit" value="Search" >
</form>
This is the updateTable
function:
function updateTable() {
var photoViewer = document.getElementById('photoViewer');
var photo = document.getElementById('photo1').href;
var numOfPics = 5;
var columns = 3;
var rows = Math.ceil(numOfPics/columns);
var content="";
var count=0;
content = "<table class='photoViewer' id='photoViewer'>";
for (r = 0; r < rows; r++) {
content +="<tr>";
for (c = 0; c < columns; c++) {
count++;
if(count == numOfPics) break; // check if number of cells is equal number of pictures to stop
content +="<td><a href='"+photo+"' id='photo1'><img class='photo' src='"+photo+"' alt='Photo'></a><p>City View</p></td>";
}
content +="</tr>";
}
content += "</table>";
photoViewer.innerHTML = content;
}
You can't do this using forms the normal way. Instead, you want to use AJAX.
A sample function that will submit the data and alert the page response.
function submitForm() {
var http = new XMLHttpRequest();
http.open("POST", "<<whereverTheFormIsGoing>>", true);
http.setRequestHeader("Content-type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
var params = "search=" + <<get search value>>; // probably use document.getElementById(...).value
http.send(params);
http.onload = function() {
alert(http.responseText);
}
}
You can use jQuery serialize function along with get/post as follows:
$.get('server.php?' + $('#theForm').serialize())
$.post('server.php', $('#theform').serialize())
jQuery Serialize Documentation: http://api.jquery.com/serialize/
Simple AJAX submit using jQuery:
// this is the id of the submit button
$("#submitButtonId").click(function() {
var url = "path/to/your/script.php"; // the script where you handle the form input.
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: url,
data: $("#idForm").serialize(), // serializes the form's elements.
success: function(data)
{
alert(data); // show response from the php script.
}
});
return false; // avoid to execute the actual submit of the form.
});
I guess this is what you need. Try this .
<form action="" method="get">
<input name="search" type="text">
<input type="button" value="Search" onclick="return updateTable();">
</form>
and your javascript code is the same
function updateTable()
{
var photoViewer = document.getElementById('photoViewer');
var photo = document.getElementById('photo1').href;
var numOfPics = 5;
var columns = 3;
var rows = Math.ceil(numOfPics/columns);
var content="";
var count=0;
content = "<table class='photoViewer' id='photoViewer'>";
for (r = 0; r < rows; r++) {
content +="<tr>";
for (c = 0; c < columns; c++) {
count++;
if(count == numOfPics)break; // here is check if number of cells equal Number of Pictures to stop
content +="<td><a href='"+photo+"' id='photo1'><img class='photo' src='"+photo+"' alt='Photo'></a><p>City View</p></td>";
}
content +="</tr>";
}
content += "</table>";
photoViewer.innerHTML = content;
}
I did it a different way to what I was wanting to do...gave me the result I needed. I chose not to submit the form, rather just get the value of the text field and use it in the javascript and then reset the text field. Sorry if I bothered anyone with this question.
Basically just did this:
var search = document.getElementById('search').value;
document.getElementById('search').value = "";