cfform onload

Report · Jul 02, 2006

I would like to execute some javascript when a form is loaded. I don't know what i'm doing wrong.
Here is the code:

<head>
<script language="javascript">
function myalert()

{

alert("this is a test");

}
</script>
</head>




<cfform action="drug_insert1.cfm" name="insertform" onload="myalert();">

<table>
<tr>
<td>Dose:</td>
<td>
<cfinput type="text"
name="Dose"
message="Drug Dose is required!"
required="yes"
validate="integer"
validateat="onsubmit,onserver"
size="10"
maxlength="10">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<a href="form_onload1.cfm">go here</a>
</tr>
</table>

</cfform>

Report · Jul 02, 2006

Do it on the <body> tag instead.

<body onload="myalert();">

--
Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert

"suluclac" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:e89c28$45u$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I would like to execute some javascript when a form is loaded. I don't
>know
> what i'm doing wrong.
> Here is the code:
>
> <head>
> <script language="javascript">
> function myalert()
>
> {
>
> alert("this is a test");
>
> }
> </script>
> </head>
>
>
> 
> 
>
> <cfform action="drug_insert1.cfm" name="insertform" onload="myalert();">
>
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td>Dose:</td>
> <td>
> <cfinput type="text"
> name="Dose"
> message="Drug Dose is required!"
> required="yes"
> validate="integer"
> validateat="onsubmit,onserver"
> size="10"
> maxlength="10">
> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <a href="form_onload1.cfm">go here</a>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> </cfform>
>

Report · Jul 02, 2006

Thank you Ken, that worked!
I still don't understand why the other way doesn't work, though.

-Gary

Report · Jul 03, 2006

I still don't understand why the other way doesn't work, though.
You are right to expect the onLoad event to fire when cfform loads. The Coldfusion cfform documentation tells us onLoad will fire when the format attribute is set to HTML or XML.

It apparently doesn't. I believe that the onLoad attribute is redundant. After all, it is absent from the list of attributes for the form element in the current HTML v4.01 specifications.

Report · Jul 02, 2006

Gary,

If you want to add something to the form use onsubmit:

<cfform action="drug_insert1.cfm" name="insertform" onsubmit="myalert();">

That way it will run when you click the submit button.

--
Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert

"suluclac" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:e89gis$95i$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Thank you Ken, that worked!
> I still don't understand why the other way doesn't work, though.
>
> -Gary