FireFox Email Form Issues

[incrediblehelp]

I was wondering if someone could help me out with this FireFox issue. The email form is below:

Contact Dr. Abramson

It works fine in IE browser versions but seems to get a error in FireFox. Here is the error that pops up when filling out the the forms with info:



I am not the designer just helping them with SEO. Any ideas?

[Dubbya]

Not a lot of time to mess with this just now, but for what it's worth, here's my .02

The SendMsg form validates properly but is trying to submit the login form along with it. There's a problem within the validation routine.


Check your JavaScripts.

[incrediblehelp]

Maybe Dubbya, but not sure why it only gives me issues in FF and not IE though.

[wige]

The function MM_validateForm() is, well my head hurt trying to read it. I would advise your client to rewrite the function to validate each form element individually instead of treating it like an array and looping through. Who knows what fun someone could have injecting unexpected data into that script. Honestly, I would expect a function written like that to break on different browsers. It looks like a generic function that was downloaded from another site and reused.

[Dubbya]

This JavaScript was most likely written by DreamWeaver... quick and easy way to validate a form but can be quite problematic, especially when placed on a page with multiple forms, as in this case.

I've always found that IE is a little more forgiving than FireFox when it comes to form submissions, so this doesn't surprise me.

AS Wige said, probably best off to rewrite the validation routine. I find it confusing as well since the form passes values in the onclick event.

<input name="Submit" type="submit" onClick="MM_validateForm('EMAIL','','RisEmail','EMAIL2','','RisEmail','USERNAME','','R','MESSAGE','','R');return document.MM_returnValue" value="  Send  ">

Around here, we usually validate the form with an onclick event as well, but specify that it return true or false. If it validates, it submits, if not, it fires an alert.

For example:

<form name=form1 action=address.asp method=post onsubmit="javascript:return ValidateForm(this)">

Here's a link to the javascript:
CodeToad - Javascript Form Validation function.

[incrediblehelp]

thanks for the help guys, will forward to the client.

[mikmik]

Yeah, client side validations is quickest, and safer. Defintely do not add input into arrays, strip everything in php as well, before processing.