282325 - Clicking submit on web form does not submit form.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Stephen Page]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Clicking the submit button on a web form does not submit the form or generate
any response from the browser. Same page works in other browsers. This site is
an example, other sites have similar results.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.View webpage
2.complete form
3.click submit

Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
the form should have been submitted for processing and the browser would have
forwarded to the sites completed form page

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Your page has 151 markup errors.

Do you have a shorter testcase?

Comment 2

[Bogdan Stroe]

It's a JavaScript error. Watch JavaScript console after you click "submit" and
you'll see:
Error: form.submit is not a function
Source File: http://www.three.co.uk/threefiles/js/fixedline.js
Line: 364

So this is really an evangelism bug.
Reporter: you could contact the site administrator to fix their code.

Comment 3

[Stephen Page]

Everyone says it is a javascript error by the sites operators/designers....yet
it works in Internet Explorer.

This is the problem, the amount of sites that dont work in Firefox but do in
internet explorer.

Guess which app I would rather be using????

Yet to fill out forms just to find they dont work and have to call up an old
bulky app like IE just to fill out a form is a pain and not useful when trying
to get ones friends to switch to the mac or firefox!

So why does it work in IE and not Firefox?

Comment 4

[Bart Veerman]

Here are a couple more URL's where the Submit button doesn't do anything:

http://voortman.com/tellus.htm
http://haruteq.com/formenter11.htm

Comment 5

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

sending to tech eva', but this is just invalid.

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

As far as I can tell, this page no longer exists. FIXED by death of page.