Re: [GENERAL] double entries into database when using IE

[David Gagnon]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If a web page has _javascript_ called on a submit button, like ', and the function does some stuff, then does a form.submit(), and DOES NOT REMEMBER TO RETURN FALSE, then the browser is supposed to go ahead and submit the form. So, something like that could possibly happen, but only if the _javascript_ is incorrectly written, as far as I know. Although, once a submit is done, it would be a gray area as to whether the form data would still be available for the second submit. I think this thread discuss the problem .. like they say I started having the problem with some version of IE6 but not IE5. http://forums.devshed.com/showthread.php?t=50160&page=1&pp=15 http://www.tfug.org/pipermail/tfug/2004-October/007785.html They don't give the answer but when they talk here is what it might be: <input class="input" type="submit " name="Submit" value="Submit" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="">"_javascript_:submitit();"> if you use _javascript_ to submit the form do not use a button type of submit.........it will submit twice correct code <input class="input" type="button " name="Submit" value="Submit" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="">"_javascript_:submitit();"> Like SCassidy said .. maybe returing FALSE will solve the problem .. but I remember having tried this without success... It's all what I know :-) I use _javascript_ in forms all the time to interact with a PostgreSQL database, and don't have any issues like this with debugged code, using IE6. Susan David Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: D A GERM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: cc: Postgresql-General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] double entries into database when using IE [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-------------------| tgresql.org | [ ] Expand Groups | |-------------------| 07/05/2005 02:24 PM Hi, I have seen IE posting request twice to the server when you post using a button that use _javascript_. Per example, if you have a submit button and call a _javascript_ that actually post the form... IE will still do the post attached to the submit button. So you will have 2 submits.... It's stupid but it's true. It's happen on some version of IE6 I think .. not all for what I remember. You can search the web for the solution ... I don't remember what I did or if I actually did something to solve the problem. /David P.S.: This is quite OT for the postgresql mailing list .. you don't think ? D A GERM wrote: I am having a problem when a browser dumps data into a table. When the browser is Firefox , it works perfect; when the browser is IE, it dumps 2 entries into the table just thousandths of a second apart. What could be causing this? Is this an issue with IE, Apache or Postgres. Thanks in advance for any help. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See our award-winning line of tape and disk-based backup & recovery solutions at http://www.overlandstorage.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org