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All,
All suggestions welcome for designing this:
1. Have a web page with tabs [4 tabs] in the body and 2 menu links on the left side. The requirement is if I modify anything in my page and click on the tabs, I should prompt the user to do a form submit before proceeding. But on the same time, if I am clicking on the menu links I should do a form auto submit.
How can I accomplish this ?
Thanks

basically you need to call
document.FormName.Submit();
which will cause the form to submit...

I closed the other duplicate thread, you might want to look at this for reference:
http://www.coderanch.com/t/114497/HTML-JavaScript/Design-help
Eric

Eric,
document.formname.submit only submits the form...
How do I distinguish betwween tabs and menu links ?
Mouli,
I added a hidden variable and didnt give a value.
Lets say that I am adding a function callme() for onchange event of the form.
function callme() {
alert("calling");
form1.clicked.value="Y";
form1.action="xxx.html";
}
Now when the user clicks on the tab or click on the menu, there is another javascript function
function check() {
}
//But I cannot get the modified value of the hidden variable here..
Thanks

Shreya,
Hope this code will do for u.
<html>
<head>
<script>
function assignValue(){
//alert(document.myform.myName.value);
document.myform.isFormDataChanged.value="Y";
}
function handleTabClick(){
//alert(document.myform.isFormDataChanged.value);
if(document.myform.isFormDataChanged.value == 'Y')
alert("Please do the form submit first...");
else {
document.myform.action="abc.html";
document.myform.submit();
}

}
function handleMenuClick(){
//alert(document.myform.isFormDataChanged.value);
document.myform.action="abc.html";
document.myform.submit();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="myform">
<a href="javascript:handleTabClick();">Tab1</a>
<a href="javascript:handleTabClick();">Tab2</a>
<a href="javascript:handleMenuClick();">Menu1</a>
<a href="javascript:handleMenuClick();">Menu2</a>
<br><br>
<input type="hidden" name="isFormDataChanged" value="N">
<input type="text" name="myName" value="" onkeydown="javascript:assignValue();">
</form>
</body>
</html>

-Mouli

Mouli,
Thanks for your great help
maya