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Gothmatum
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: A place surrounded by turkeys
Insane since: Jul 2006

IP logged posted posted 11-17-2006 19:36 Edit Quote

The latest request from my higher-ups is as follows:

We have a few order forms on the website, but when a field is left blank and the Submit button is hit, all the fields are sent to our salespeople who get rather confused/frustrated/inconvenienced by all the extraneous data. They would like the forms to leave out empty fields once they're submitted.

Can this be achieved with JavaScript?

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poi
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Norway
Insane since: Jun 2002

IP logged posted posted 11-18-2006 10:42 Edit Quote

Yes it can be done in JS but it's more a server side task.
In JS you could use DOM methods to remove the empty FORM elements onSubmit. Dirty but it'll work ... if the user hasn't disabled JS.

liorean
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Umeå, Sweden
Insane since: Sep 2004

IP logged posted posted 11-18-2006 23:13 Edit Quote

I would consider this a task for the receiving server side page. The data collecting back end should always do validation of received data.

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Tyberius Prime
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Germany
Insane since: Sep 2001

IP logged posted posted 11-19-2006 13:44 Edit Quote

Indeed, liorean is right.

Javascript checks are an added bonus for usability - they are never something you should rely on.

poi
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Norway
Insane since: Jun 2002

IP logged posted posted 11-19-2006 14:28 Edit Quote

Just to make it crystal clear. I do NOT advice to do that in JavaScript. As I said, although it's possible to do on client side, this is clearly something that is best done on server side.

This should be a one line fix on your current server side script.



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