h:commandLink and onsubmit

[Arine Vasan]

Hi,

I have a javascript validation onsubmit of my form. When I click the
commandLink the js gets called and throws the alert for validation
failure. But the form submits even when the validation fails. Could
you please let me know if I am not using this correctly.

SCRIPT:

function validate(){
if (..){

}else{
alert('Validation Error');
return false;
}
return true;
}

FORM:
<h:form id="frmSave" onsubmit="return validate();">
....
<h:commandLink action="#{mBean.save}">
<h utputText value="Save" styleClass="button-text"/>
</h:commandLink>
</h:form>

Thanks,
Aruna

[Paul Michael]

I also had this problem with commandLink's onclick method before.

I needed to perform some JS validations on the onlick method and should continue/stop submission depending on the result.

I found out that it didn't work with commandLink, I switched to commandButton and it worked fine.