In the following page, with Firefox the remove button submits the form, but the add button doesn't. How do I prevent the remove button from submitting the form?
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function addItem() {
var v = $('form :hidden:last').attr('name');
var n = /(.*)input/.exec(v);
var newPrefix;
if ( n[1].length == 0 ) {
newPrefix = '1';
} else {
newPrefix = parseInt(n[1])+1;
}
var oldElem = $('form tr:last');
var newElem = oldElem.clone(true);
var lastHidden = $('form :hidden:last');
lastHidden.val(newPrefix);
var pat = '=\"'+n[1]+'input';
newElem.html(newElem.html().replace(new RegExp(pat, 'g'), '=\"'+newPrefix+'input'));
newElem.appendTo('table');
$('form :hidden:last').val('');
}
function removeItem() {
var rows = $('form tr');
if ( rows.length > 2 ) {
rows[rows.length-1].html('');
$('form :hidden:last').val('');
} else {
alert('Cannot remove any more rows');
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form autocomplete="off" method="post" action="">
<p>Title:<input type="text" /></p>
<button onclick="addItem(); return false;">Add Item</button>
<button onclick="removeItem(); return false;">Remove Last Item</button>
<table>
<th>Name</th>
<tr>
<td><input type="text" id="input1" name="input1" /></td>
<td><input type="hidden" id="input2" name="input2" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input id="submit" type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
i had solved this problem in three ways it will help to you
if we use jquery validation plugin in
2nd method using prevent default
3rd using javscript(onsubmit event)
if we use onsubmit event within form tag it triggers url instead if we use onsubmit in button or input which has type=submit
hope it will help
This is an html5 error like has been said, you can still have the button as a submit (if you want to cover both javascript and non javascript users) using it like:
This way you will cancel the submit but still do whatever you are doing in jquery or javascript function`s and do the submit for users who dont have javascript.
Set the type on your buttons:
...that'll keep them from triggering a submit action when an exception occurs in the event handler. Then, fix your
removeItem()
function so that it doesn't trigger an exception:Note the change: your original code extracted a HTML element from the jQuery set, and then tried to call a jQuery method on it - this threw an exception, resulting in the default behavior for the button.
FWIW, there's another way you could go with this... Wire up your event handlers using jQuery, and use the preventDefault() method on jQuery's event object to cancel the default behavior up-front:
This technique keeps all of your logic in one place, making it easier to debug... it also allows you to implement a fall-back by changing the
type
on the buttons back tosubmit
and handling the event server-side - this is known as unobtrusive JavaScript.I agree with Shog9, though I might instead use:
According to w3schools, the
<button>
tag has different behavior on different browsers.The following sample code show you how to prevent button click from submitting form.
You may try my sample code: