Problems with action

[Giomar Guevara]

Hi,

I have 2 buttons, one to save a page and one to cancel it.
When I hit the cancel button it should perform the "cancel" action but instead it does the action related to the save button

This is my code:

<input type="image" src="../images/button_save.gif" alt="save" title="Save taxonomy" accesskey="S"/>
<input type="image" src="../images/button_cancel.gif" alt="cancel" title="Cancel New Taxonomy" accesskey="C" oncclick="cancel()">

<script language="JavaScript">
function cancel()
{
document.forms[0].action="/nserverManager/sam/blank.do";
document.forms[0].submit();
}

</script>

Any ideas?

PD on purpose I wrote wrong the onclick method so I could post this message

thanks
[ October 25, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Bear Bibeault]

Are you saying that the blank.do action is not being invoked?

[Christophe Verré]

replace
<script type="JavaScript">
with
<script type="text/javascript">

[Giomar Guevara]

yes,I'm saying that the blank.do action is not being invoked.

Satou I replaced the tag but didn't work...

[Eric Pascarello]

try

onclick="cancel();return false;">

shot in the dark...

Eric

[Giomar Guevara]

thanks a lot Eric...

can you tell me what does the "return false" do??

[Eric Pascarello]

I think there is a race condition there and your function lost. The image is submitting before your code is run. So I had you cancel the image submit so your code would do the submission.

You probably could change it to be:

onclick="return cancel();">

AND

function cancel()
{
document.forms[0].action="/nserverManager/sam/blank.do";
return true;
}

and it probably will work.

Eric