Amen to that -- Firebug is an immense help. Indispensable, even, if you are doing Ajax and need to inspect the stuff coming back at you. Too bad FF 2.x is such a prolifigate hog and waster of memory -- it's really killing me here on Fedora 7.
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Tim Lieberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also: Firebug is your friend. Just set a breakpoint on the first line of > your function, and step through. > > -Tim > > > On May 6, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Kristina Anderson wrote: > > thanks!! will do. >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Kristina Anderson >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi everyone -- >>>> >>>> I'm trying to build out a validation routine for my input forms and >>>> found something that I like/find easy to extend. I added it as an >>>> external script to my test page. I tested to make sure all the >>>> subfunctions were being called by inserting alert boxes and they >>>> >>> are >> >>> being called. Unfortunately, the routine is not picking up my >>>> empty/non valid fields and instead appears to be just >>>> >>> returning "true" >> >>> and submitting the form. >>>> >>>> >>> My guess is that your javascript has errors which prevents the submit >>> handler from returning false. This makes it really hard for >>> debugging... >>> >>> Try the following when developing: >>> <form onsubmit="validate(this);return false;"> >>> instead of >>> <form onsubmit="return validate(this)"> >>> >>> This way when "validate" errors out, the submission will still be >>> trapped and you can see the errors in the console. >>> >>> HTH, >>> >>> -john c. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List >>> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >>> >>> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >>> http://www.nyphpcon.com >>> >>> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >>> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >> http://www.nyphpcon.com >> >> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >> > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > -- David Mintz http://davidmintz.org/ The subtle source is clear and bright The tributary streams flow through the darkness
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