Great explanation, thank you so much. But I still cant grab output of
page we sent the data. I still only get "Contact Form Submitted!"
message, though I know my server side codes gave an error message.
On Aug 17, 1:39 pm, Miloš Rašić <milos.ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> html() method set's the innerHTML of an element, which means that it
> overwrites what was previously in it. What you should do is:
> $("#SIGNUPFORM").html(output);
> $('#SIGNUPFORM').append("<h2>Contact Form Submitted!</h2>");
>
> It would also be good for your programming for you to get a habit of
> chaining methods whenever possible. As it is, your code will search
> the DOM for #SIGNUPFORM twice unnecessarily. If you do it like:
> $("#SIGNUPFORM").html(output).append("<h2>Contact Form Submitted!</h2>");
> the element will be selected only once. You can chain the methods as
> long as you will until you use a method that is supposed to return
> something specific about the object (also called an inspector).
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> 2009/8/17 efet <efetun...@gmail.com>:
>
>
>
> > Ok now it partially worked! I get Contact Form Submitted! message once
> > I click submit. But! there still is a one problem. When form
> > submitted, if email address is used before, my server side script
> > gives "sorry, you cannot use this email address" message. How can I
> > grab other page's response text and print it to the page instead. I
> > tried it as:
>
> > success: function(output) {
> > $("#SIGNUPFORM").html(output);
> > $('#SIGNUPFORM').html("<h2>Contact
> > Form Submitted!</h2>")
> > }
>
> > On Aug 17, 1:13 pm, Miloš Rašić <milos.ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Your page is refreshed? No wonder since you are using type="submit"
> >> input. Change it to type="button" and add return false; at the end of
> >> your onclick function just in case. return false; will prevent the
> >> button from continuing with its default behaviour once your function
> >> is complete.
>
> >> Submit inputs are used to submit a form (without AJAX) to a url
> >> provided in the action attribute of your form. Since your form doesn't
> >> have an action attribute, it assumes that the form should be posted to
> >> the current url. Your function probably works, but once it is
> >> completed the form submits normally without waiting for AJAX response.
>
> >> 2009/8/17 efet <efetun...@gmail.com>:
>
> >> > I missed few ""s there thank you. I am pasting the updated code here.
> >> > I just installed firebug. I dont receive any errors, what happens is
> >> > page is refreshed. Before moving to an easier method, I want to learn
> >> > this method first. I am just a beginner yet. Do you think page is
> >> > refreshed because I have method="post" in my form?
>
> >> > Updated code:
> >> > $(document).ready(function() {
> >> > $("[name='signup']").click(function() {
> >> > $.ajax({
> >> > type: "POST",
> >> > data: { PROCESS: "Add2Member",
> >> > FIRSTNAME: "[name='FIRSTNAME']",
> >> > LASTNAME: "[name='LASTNAME']", EMAILADDRESS: "[name='EMAILADDRESS']",
> >> > PASSWORD: "[name='PASSWORD']", CITY: "[name='CITY']" },
> >> > url: "default.cs.asp",
> >> > success: function(output) {
> >> > $("#SIGNUPFORM").html(output);
> >> > $('#SIGNUPFORM').html("<h2>Contact Form
> >> > Submitted!</h2>")
> >> > }
> >> > });
> >> > });
