cfinput required="yes" and inline javascript conflict

[bforce]

Has anyone experienced a situation where inline Javascript is causing Cold
Fusion's native error reporting to fail. I have a script that tests 2 select
boxes to make sure the user has selected a value, if not, generate an alert.
My regular cfinput fields are set to required="yes" message="myMessage". But
if I have an onSubmit function in tag <CFFORM>, the form will submit and no
alert will be generated for the required cfinput fields. Take out the
onSubmit function and CF alerts as expected. I started noticing this after
upgrading to CF 7. Below is my code:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function CheckForm() {
if (document.forms[0].Country.selectedIndex < 1) {
alert("Please select a country.");
return false;
}
else if (document.forms[0].STATE1.selectedIndex < 1) {
alert("Please select a state.");
return false;
}
}
//-->
</script>

<cfform name="form" action="mreg_pck.cfm" method="post" onSubmit="return
CheckForm();">
MyForm
</cfform>

[bforce]

Also - Does anyone know what's up with cfxchange.com? Bought a custom tag
from them yesterday and the site broke. Never go the tag and thier site is
down today. I thought it was a pretty active site for CF developers but all
of the posts in thier forum look to be at least a year old. Hope I didn't
get ripped!


"bforce" <bforce@poultryegg.org> wrote in message
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> Has anyone experienced a situation where inline Javascript is causing Cold
> Fusion's native error reporting to fail. I have a script that tests 2
> select boxes to make sure the user has selected a value, if not, generate
> an alert. My regular cfinput fields are set to required="yes"
> message="myMessage". But if I have an onSubmit function in tag <CFFORM>,
> the form will submit and no alert will be generated for the required
> cfinput fields. Take out the onSubmit function and CF alerts as expected.
> I started noticing this after upgrading to CF 7. Below is my code:
>
> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
> <!--
> function CheckForm() {
> if (document.forms[0].Country.selectedIndex < 1) {
> alert("Please select a country.");
> return false;
> }
> else if (document.forms[0].STATE1.selectedIndex < 1) {
> alert("Please select a state.");
> return false;
> }
> }
> //-->
> </script>
>
> <cfform name="form" action="mreg_pck.cfm" method="post" onSubmit="return
> CheckForm();">
> MyForm
> </cfform>
>

[CF_DAWG]

I had the same problem with calling javascript from the onsubmit attribute in
the cfform tag when trying to validate a field in the form. I got around this
by using the onvalidate attribute of the cfinput or cfselect or any other cf
form type tag. But I don't think you have to use it on the form you provided.
Here is what I would do with your form:

<cfform name="form" action="mreg_pck.cfm" method="post">
<cfselect query="GetCountries" name="Country" display="country_name"
value="country_code" required="yes" message="A country is required">
</cfselect>
<cfselect query="GetStates" name="STATE1" display="state_name"
value="state_code" required="yes" message="A state is required">
</cfselect>
</cfform>

Hope this helps, but let me know if you were looking for something else!