submitOnChange in IE as expected in Firefox

[Praveen Ramachandran]

Hi

In webapplication there are quite a number of places where there is a dropdown select.The functionality is in such a way that when we select a particular element from the dropdown using mouse and clicking the same submits it to other jsp page.When the same is selected by the down arrow key the first element (after -none-) gets selected always thereby forcing the submit function to occur and the other elements cant be selected.

submitOnChange functionality is working on Firefox ,can i get some clue to implement the same in IE,


Thanks and regards
Praveen Ramachandran

[Eric Pascarello]

I never heard of submitonchange...

you can do

onchange="document.formName.submit();"
onblur="document.formName.submit();"

And make sure that if you have a submit button on the page, that its name is not submit.

Eric

[Remko Strating]

I have the same problem and was also thinking about using the onblur event.

The pitfall of this is that there will be a submit after the user leaves the field while there is no change.

This can be solved with a separate submit button, but is it not possible to change the behavior of IE by the onchange event.

[Eric Pascarello]

you either have to use a timeout. This happens in IE6 and under, not in IE7

Only way to stop it is to use a timeout

<scriptvar timer=false;</script>
 
onchange="if(timer)window.clearTimeout(timer);window.setTimeout('document.fomName.submit()',200);"

or change it to use onblur

onblur="document.fomName.submit()"