The form is not submitting

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

function validate()
            {
              var uid=document.login.uname;
              var passid=document.login.pass;

if(userid_validation(uid,4,20))
               {
                if(passid_validation(passid,7,12))
                 {
                 }
               }
               return false;
            }

function userid_validation(uid,mx,my)
{
var uid_len = uid.value.length;

if (uid_len == 0 || uid_len >= my || uid_len < mx)
{
alert("User Id should not be empty / length be between "+mx+" to "+my);
uid.focus();
return false;

}
return true;
}

function passid_validation(passid,mx,my)
{
    var passid_len = passid.value.length;
if (passid_len == 0 ||passid_len >= my || passid_len < mx)
{
alert("Password should not be empty / length be between "+mx+" to "+my);
passid.focus();
return false;
}
return true;
}

</script>
    </head>
    <body>

<jsp:include page="index.jsp"></jsp:include>
        <form  name="login" action="Jobs.jsp" method="post" onsubmit="return validate()" >

<%--

have to write here if anything

--%>
             </div></td>
              <td width="411"><div align="left">
                <table width="426" height="316" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
                  <tr>
                    <td width="36"> </td>
                  <td width="316"> </td>
                    <td width="39"> </td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                    <td height="53"> </td>
                  <td><font size="5"><strong>Sign in</strong></font></td>
                    <td> </td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                    <td height="21"> </td>
                  <td>Username</td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                    <td height="24"> </td>
                  <td><input type="text" name="uname"></td>
                    <td> </td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                    <td height="21"> </td>
                  <td>Password</td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                    <td height="33"> </td>
                  <td><input type="password" name="pass"></td>
                    <td> </td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                    <td><div align="left"></div></td>
                  <td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
                        <input type="checkbox" name="checkbox" value="checkbox">
Stay signed in </td>
                    <td> </td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                    <td height="35"> </td>
                    <td><a href=Seeker_Help.jsp>Can't access your account?</a></td>
                    <td> </td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                    <td height="42"> </td>
                    <td> </td>
                    <td> </td>
                  </tr>
                </table>
              <p> </p>
              </div></td>
            </tr>
          </table>
          <p> </p>
          <p> </p>
          <p> </p>
          <p> </p>
    </div>
        <p> </p>

</form>

</body>
</html>

You're form calls validate() on submitting. That always returns false, which causes the form submit to abort. This behaviour was built in to allow JavaScript to prevent a form from submitting if some fields were not filled in properly. You appear to want to use it in this way, but you need to return true to allow the form to submit.

hey rob....here what i want is ....first the validation through javascript then ofcourse the submission of the form ...which is not happening at all........where should i modify the code to have the desired functionality......

You have already been given the answer: when you wish the form to submit do not return false.

thanks to both of you rob and bibeault.......my query is resolved