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Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Robert Baer wrote:
>
>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>> Robert Baer wrote:
>>>> <script type="text/javascript">
>>>> // ** Screening code to use follows
>>>
>>> “Screening”?
>> * Yes; ASSuME i can get the data entered in the form fields,
>
> In theory, you can.
* Yah; the rub is in the practice...

>
>> i want to test according to certain criteria and REJECT the "e-mail"
>> attempt.
>
> The proper term for that is “form validation”.
* Thanks; documentaton duly changed.

>
>>>>      tstE= EBody[subjptr];
>>>
>>> 1. Assignment to undeclared identifier.
>>>
>>> 2. “EBody” should probably be “eBody”.
>> * Well,the assignment does that.
>
> Does what?
* The assignment declares the identifier.

> You have to declare the identifier one of a variable or this is
> at least error-prone.  (In the recommended strict mode, it throws a
> ReferenceError exception.)
* Have changed them to read: var tstE= EBody[subjptr];

>
>> I used the name EBody  for the array;
>> could have mixed the character cases at randumb for all javascript cares.
>
> Only identifiers for constructors/classes and constant(-like value)s should
> start with a capital character (constructor’s/class’s identifiers should be
> camel-case, constant’s identifiers should be all-uppercase), to tell them
> apart.
* do not know about constructors, but have changed all EBody to eBody.

>
>>>>     <form name="dataholder" action="">
>>>
>>> How can the user submit that form without script support?
>> * I know absolutely NOTHING how forms work.
>
> Learn it.
>
>> * for an input form that DOES work without script support, see […]
>
> You do realize that it was a rhetoric question, yes
* no.

>
>>> Use stylesheet rules, avoid style attributes.
>> * I know less about style sheets than a fly.
>
> Learn it.
>
>>>>         <input type="text" class="form-control" name="QN" id="#">
>>>
>>> Invalid ID except in HTML5.<http://validator.w3.org/>
>> * Stolen coding that i am fiddling with in futile attempts to get info
>> from form to javascript.
>
> This is not a free support forum for script-kiddies doing copy&  pray, but a
> newsgroup for (aspiring) software developers.
>
>>>> […]
>>>>         <!-- The browser must use the tpe for crude checkfor te @ sign
>>>>         -->
>>>
>>> I beg your pardon?
>>     Note: input type="email"; the browser must be doing the checking for
>> an "@" sign - input must be like x@x and not xxx.
>
> The rules are considerably more complex than that, and you may want to use
> your own validator instead since the built-in rules are too restrictive (and
> work only in HTML5 user agents anyway).
* 1) The code i am building on is all HTML5.
   2) i plan to add more restrictive rules as checking for an "@" only 
is rather lame.
   3) if that has more rules, nobody is talking.

>
>>>> <script type="text/javascript">
>>>>
>>>> // do not know what to do to get those variables
>>>
>>> That is not a question.
>> * OK, it was a statement. _HOW_ do i get this to work?
>>     Code stolen from http://www.oil4lessllc.com/index-4.html.
>
> See above.  You need a minimum clue before it makes sense to give you
> further advice.  But this is not JavaScript/DOM 101; you need to *follow*
> the *references* to *free* documentation that you have been given, and
> *read* about the basics there.
* I tried SIX other schemes from "references" as read in "free" 
documentation, and NONE work.
   None of those said anything about "basics".

>
>>>> //  following gives undefined
>>>> //    Qmsg=document.getElementsByName("form-control").innerHTML ;
>>>> //    document.writeln(Qmsg+"|<BR>");
>>>
>>> getElement*s*ByName
>> * Yes; online guides indicated a message field/block is an array;
>
> It is not; instead, the getElement*s*ByName() method returns a reference to
> an array-like DOM object (that implements at least the NodeList interface).
> Compare getElementById().
>
>> that reading from a multi-line field/block is done by a set (array) of
>> elements.
>
> This has nothing to do with whether the field is multi-line (i.e. is a
> textarea).  What “block” are you talking about?
* The box i see; a block of character space.

>
>>     I could change that,
>
> You cannot, this feature is built into the DOM implementation.
>
>>     but the change will not fix the rest of the
>> problems.
>
> The main problem is that you do not have the slightest clue what you are
> doing or talking about, and you appear to be unwilling to make an effort
> changing that.
* Effort? Spending many hours,working with "examples" of code said to work?
   Even tho the result is zilch, the effort is a lot.
   Got frustrated and asked for help.

>
   Thanks.

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How fetch data from form for javascript screening Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2016-07-11 22:41 -0800
  Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-12 11:38 +0200
    Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-07-12 11:50 +0200
      Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2016-07-12 13:50 -0800
        Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-07-13 00:09 +0200
          Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2016-07-12 17:27 -0800
        Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-13 01:15 +0200
          Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2016-07-12 18:53 -0800
            Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-13 18:03 +0200
              Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2016-07-14 00:16 -0800
                Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-14 23:40 +0200
    Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2016-07-12 13:40 -0800
      Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-13 01:09 +0200
        Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2016-07-12 17:51 -0800
          Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-14 01:07 +0200
  Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-07-13 14:30 +0200
    Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2016-07-13 23:56 -0800
      Re: How fetch data from form for javascript screening Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-15 11:32 +0200

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