277661 - OnClick has no effect on Submit-button.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Henrik Öström]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

If you press a Submit button containing OnClick the form will processed no
matter what the javascript says.

Example:
<input name="submitbutton" onClick="javascript:if(confirm('Submit form?!'))
{document.editart.submit();}" type="submit" value="Submit">

In this case the submit should be interupted if you chose 'Cancel' and processed
if you press 'Ok'.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Press button
2.Press cancel

Actual Results:  
The form is processed.

Expected Results:  
Nothing.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

If you want to completely handle clicks, and not have the default action occur
at all, you have to return false; in your handler:
onClick="javascript:if(confirm('Submit form?!'))
{document.editart.submit();}; return false;