form.action in IE

[Eduardo Bueno]

Hello ranchers,

I have a problem with the DOM form object. I'm trying to change it's action, but I can't get it to work in IE.
This code is inside a function called by a button's onClick event:

  document.form1.action = "Mypage.go";
		return true;  

It works fine in FF, though.

[Charbel Keyrouz]

Show more code please.

[Eduardo Bueno]

I'm using JSP and Servlets. In some of my pages I have this button:

<input type="submit" title="Incluir" name="btnIncluir"
	value="" class="btn_incluir"
	onclick="return validaDisponibilidades(${temDisponibilidade})" />

temDisponibilidade is irrelevant since it is with the correct value (true).

Now the JS:

function validaDisponibilidades(temDisponibilidade) {
	if (temDisponibilidade) {
		document.forms[0].action = "Manter.go";
		return true;
	} else {
		alert("Você não possui disponibilidade em aberto.");
		return false;
	}
}

Where Manter.go will go by my servlet. In FF, when the request reaches the servlet, request.getServletPath() is already "/Manter.go", so it will process the business logic and forward to a certain JSP. In IE request.getServletPath() is with the old value ("Reportes.go"), so it will process the current page again. From this I can only presume that IE doesn't recognize form.action property.

[Eric Pascarello]

and what does

onclick="return validaDisponibilidades(${temDisponibilidade})" />  

look like when you view the page source in IE?

Eric

[Eduardo Bueno]

<input type="submit" title="Incluir" name="btnIncluir"
	value="" class="btn_incluir"
	onclick="return validaDisponibilidades(true)" />

[Eric Pascarello]

and you said it did not work if you did

document.btnIncluir.action = "asdf";

Eric

[Eduardo Bueno]

I have no idea what you were trying to say, but I tried that code and it didn't work.

[Eric Pascarello]

Do you have anything named action in your form/page?

Eric

[Eduardo Bueno]

Actually, every form has an action.

http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/dom_obj_form.asp

[Bear Bibeault]

That's not what he asked.

[Eduardo Bueno]

Sorry, if there is any misregard here please clarify things to me. I still didn't understand what I am doing wrong in the code, neither what he is trying to tell me.

Edit: got the point. There really was a hidden field named action in my JSP, so IE was setting it's value instead of the form's value. Sorry for bothering you guys.

[Bear Bibeault]

This is a common problem with "action" and "submit". They should never be used as names in HTML form elements.

[Eric Pascarello]