Two functions off onclick not working...stumped. 1

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I've got the fun job of writing a form that uses entirely client-side programming for validation and input saving, as it's going out to use on disk. All the workings are written in javascript, and I know the functions work on their own, but then I get to the end:

<td><input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;Save entry&quot; name=&quot;Submitbutton&quot; onClick=&quot;return validateForm(form1);save(form1);&quot; style=&quot;background-color:#F0F8FF;border-color:#B0E0E6;&quot; title=&quot;Save this entry and move on to next employee.&quot;></td>

and the validation works, but not the save! The form is huge, (there are 61 fields), so I'm reluctant to post it all unless necessary. If I remove the 'return' from before the validateForm, both functions fire, but when I put it back only the validation works.
I made sure there's an
else
return true
at the end of the validation function, but it isn't working!

Any ideas why? Please?

 

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the handler for the submission of the form (onSubmit) is like a function that looks like this :

function onClick()
{
return validateForm(form1);
save(form1);
}

The problem is that when you do a return inside a function it stops from executing at that moment.

so what you would need to do is this :

function onClick()
{
save(form1);
return validateForm();
}

or maybe :

function onClick()
{
if (validateForm())
{
save(form1)
}
else
{
return false;
}
}

you can put it all inside the hanlder like so :

onclick="if(validateForm()){ save(this) }else{ return false }"

I hope this helps. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

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Thank you soooo much. That's a job saver

Sarah