Can a for do 2 actions?

[echostorm]

Hey all,

Is it possible to perform to actions in a form? i.e. have the form do both of these functions?

<form action="#" onsubmit="handleCartItem(this);return false;">

and

<form name="order" method="post" action="stockorder.php">

 

[gormster]

no. what you need to do is have two forms - but only one with a submit button. when you hit that button, it sets of the javascript, and then you have at the end of that script a form2.submit() call which will promptly set off the one which had an 'action' tag.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

gormster,

Your solution may not always work... If form1 gets submitted before the Javascript has had a chance to submit form2, form2 will never be submitted.

echostorm,

Why do you need to perform two form actions at the same time? Maybe there is a way around this?

Dan


[tt]D'ya think I got where I am today because I dress like Peter Pan here?[/tt]

 

[tsdragon]

As long as you want handleCartItem to be called before the form is posted to stockorder.php, just combine the two line this:

<form name="order" method="post" action="stockorder.php" onsubmit="return handleCartItem(this);">

And make sure that handleCartItem returns true if you want the form to submit.


Tracy Dryden

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