Java script alert problem in IE6

valen53

Testing PC.
PC1 : w2k, IE5 ;
PC2 : win98 IE6

alert1.php

<?
if ( $Submit == 'Submit' ) {
 echo'
   <script language="JavaScript1.2">
     alert("Data updated ! ");
   </script>';
 }
?>

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="alert1.php">
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

PC1 : correctly, alert the message one time
PC2 : wrongly, alert the message twice time

anybody face this problem b4 ? is it IE6 setting problem ?

onyx

Ok. I don't think you are quite getting how this works.

I assume you want an alert box when the person submits the form.


<html> 
<head> 
<title>Title</title> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 
   <script language="JavaScript1.2"> 
function alertuser()
{ 
alert("Data updated ! "); 
}
   </script>
</head> 

<body> 
<form name="form1" method="post" action="wherever.php" onSubmit="javascript:alertuser()"> 
  <input type="submit" name="Submit"> 
</form> 
</body>
</html>

But in reality you do not really want to put a javascript alert, it would be far better to determine with php that a submission had occured and then print an html page saying thank you for the submission etc.

Please note that the javascript after the onsubmit should be all one word, NOT java script.

Does anyone know if this is a bug in phpbuilder as it always decided to separate the word even when they were wrote together?

OhLordy

What does the html source look like?

pyro

While we are talking about JavaScript, might I point out that the language attribute has been depreciated since 1997? One should use the type attribute, instead:

valen53

Originally posted by onyx
Ok. I don't think you are quite getting how this works.

I assume you want an alert box when the person submits the form.


<html> 
<head> 
<title>Title</title> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 
   <script language="JavaScript1.2"> 
function alertuser()
{ 
alert("Data updated ! "); 
}
   </script>
</head> 

<body> 
<form name="form1" method="post" action="wherever.php" onSubmit="javascript:alertuser()"> 
  <input type="submit" name="Submit"> 
</form> 
</body>
</html>

[/B]

actually after i press the button, it will running sql statement and condition also. if Condition = true, alert just will prompt.

onyx

But why do this? Why not just print out on the page to inform the user the submission was sucessful as opposed to poping up a box which they are going to have to click to get rid of (which will be quite annoying)

Also you should never really rely on javascript for you main system functionality as you can never be certain a user has it switched on. Javascript should only be ever used as a site enhancement.

OhLordy

Onyx, I think you're missing the point. It's not so much how or where the javascript is being used but the fact it is acting differently on two different but very similar setups.
Rob

onyx

I did get the point and mine was to have an alert when the form had been submitted is pointless since it is possible to just print out a page instead and just totally remove the javascript.

Yes I relise that the code is different in both cases, ie that I wrote for the alert to popup just before submission and that what was required was after submission. in both cases it is still pointless.

maxpup979

regardless of whether or not it is pointless to do this, I have run into something similar in the past--it appeared that a script was running differently on different machines that were running the same browser--could be a couple of things. Try clearing the cache, and also verify that the browser settings are identical--Although I have no idea what would cause the alert to pop twice...the code however does work just fine--

bad76

Hi
try to rewrite this way

<html> 
<head> 
<title>Untitled Document</title> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 
</head> 
<? if ( $Submit == 'Submit' ) { ?>
   <script> 
     alert("Data updated ! "); 
   </script> 
<? } ?> 

<body> 
<form name="form1" method="post" action="alert1.php"> 
 <input type...

good luck...

valen53

<html> 
<head> 
<title>Untitled Document</title> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 
</head> 
<? if ( $Submit == 'Submit' ) { ?> 
   <script> 
     alert("Data updated ! "); 
   </script> 
<? } ?>  

<body> 
<form name="form1" method="post" action="alert1.php"> 
<input type...

above 1 was function b'cos
The <script> was before <html> tag and it doesn't complies with standard HTML specification.

LordShryku

Really no need for the script. Could just do it in the body tag as an onLoad statement.

<? 
if($Submit == "Submit") {  

    echo "<body onLoad=\"javascript:alert('Update successful!');\">";
}
else {
    echo "<body>";
}
?>

Well javascript should be all one word, but the board breaks it apart here.