Validating a single radio button is not working in available javascript validation script
I have randomly generated radio button series like
<input type="radio" name="creatorusers" value="1">
<input type="radio" name="creatorusers" value="1">
<input type="radio" name="creatorusers" value="1">
<input type="radio" name="creatorusers" value="1">
.....so on
But I get only ONE radio button and execute the javascript validation given for it to chk whether the radio button is selected or not, then it doesnt work Ples help me out in resolving this.
mycreator = -1;
for (i=frm.creatorusers.length-1; i > -1; i--) {
if (frm.creatorusers[i].checked) {
mycreator = i; i = -1;
}
}
if (mycreator == -1) {
alert("You must select a Creator User!");
r开发者_JAVA技巧eturn false;
}
Always (!) use the var keyword. Otherwise your variables will be in the global scope (yes, even those in function bodies), which can make for some bugs that are hard to track down.
As @Felix pointed out, creatorusers
will only be an array if there is more than one element with that name in the form. You can create a single-element array when necessary to work around that.
Here is an abstracted function that can validate an arbitrary checkbox list.
function ensureChecked(checkboxes, error) {
if (checkboxes) {
var cbx = (checkboxes.length > 0) ? checkboxes : [checkboxes];
for (var i=0; i<cbx.length; i++) {
if (cbx[i].checked) {
return true;
}
}
alert(error);
}
return false;
}
call as
ensureChecked(frm.creatorusers, "You must select a Creator User!");
Ah now I got. If you only have one radio button, then frm.creatorusers
is not an array. Just skip it:
var mycreator = -1;
var checked = false;
if(typeof frm.creatorusers.length === 'number') {
for (var i=frm.creatorusers.length; i--; ) {
if (frm.creatorusers[i].checked) {
mycreator = i;
checked = true;
break;
}
}
}
else if(frm.creatorusers.checked){
mycreator = //? what here?
checked = true;
}
if(!checked) {
alert("You must select a Creator User!");
return false;
}
If mycreator
was just for checking whether a button was selected or not, you can completely remove it from the code above.
Some further notes to your code:
- Always declare variables with
var
, otherwise they will be global. - Use
break
to end a loop. - Maybe it is just because of copy and paste, but having a lot of radio buttons with the same value does not make much sense.
You can do something like this:
function validate(frm){
var isChecked = false;
for (var i=0; i<frm.elements.length; i++)
{
if (frm.elements[i].type === 'radio'){
if (frm.elements[i].checked === true){
isChecked = true;
break;
}
}
}
if (isChecked === true){
return true;
}
else{
alert('You should select an option first !');
}
}
Now you should call above function on onsubmit
event of the form:
<form onsubmit="return validate(this);">
Now the validate
function will make sure that at least one radio button is checked otherwise it won't submit.
this should do it
function isRadioSelected(btn) {
if(typeof btn.length === 'number') {
for(var i=0;i<btn.length;i++)
if(btn[i].checked) return true
}else{
if(btn.checked) return true
}
return false
}
You could try something like this instead:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function confirmsubmit() {
var btn = document.formname.buttonname
if (btn.checked == false)
{
window.alert("You did not click the button.");
btn.focus();
return false;
}
return true;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="mailto:youremail@yourdomain.com"
name="formname" onsubmit="return confirmsubmit();">
click here: <input type="radio" name="buttonname"><br />
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit"></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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