Basic Form Issues

[Historical Forums User]

This is probably something quite simple for someone that knows what they’re doing but I haven’t created a website since Frontpage and now I’m using dreamweaver and guessing my way through things.

My website starts with a splash screen which asks for a password. I spent almost all day trying to get things to work by copy pasting code and I finally got it with this javascript:
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/mypBEM.html

It works great and does what it is supposed to when you click the button, however if you press enter it does not do the right thing, and puts whatever was entered in the password box into the URL at the end after a ?

I see this is used on a number of websites but I don’t have a clue how to use this function and I just want the form to submit when I press enter and not do whatever tricky PHP type thing it is doing.

Is there a simple fix to this?

Thanks,

Adam

[JamesBarnsley]

I doubt anyone will be able to answer this question based on what you have written here.

Is the Flash suppose to send the password to a PHP script?

Is the form purely in embedded flash?

[Historical Forums User]

Hi,

Flash isn’t used at all. The form is basic html/javascript.

When submit is clicked, javascript sends the user to another page.

When enter is pressed, the text in the textbox goes into the address bar.

If there’s any more info I should provide, please tell me what you need to know and I’ll do my best.

Thanks

[JamesBarnsley]

Do you have the HTML and JS code? Can you paste it?

[Historical Forums User]

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ZYvvZV.html

[JamesBarnsley]

Remove this …

onclick=”pasuser(this.form)”

And add this to the form tag …

onsubmit=”pasuser(this)”

Think that should work.

[Historical Forums User]

Nope, still does the same thing and breaks the login button.

[JamesBarnsley]

Try this …

Remove this …

onclick=”pasuser(this.form)”

And add this to the form tag …

onsubmit=”pasuser(this)”

Delete the onkeyup=”” from the button.

Change the button type=”button” to type=”submit”

Think that should work.

[Historical Forums User]

No such luck.

[JamesBarnsley]

What happens?

[Historical Forums User]

The same. If I type in “adfs” and press enter the end of the URL becomes: index.html?id=adfs

The login button now does nothing.

[JamesBarnsley]

Can you add a closing </form> tag to your form.

And try it again.

[Historical Forums User]

No change.

This is what it looks like now:
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/RNxQZL.html

[JamesBarnsley]

The onsubmit needs to be in the <form> tag before the name.

<form onsubmit=”pasuser(this)” name=”login”>

[Historical Forums User]

This is what I’ve got now but it’s still the same. Button not working either.

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/gbovXe.html

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