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otis92
otis92

Reputation: 37

How do I prevent my form from submitting if one of the fields is blank (JSP)?

Below is my JSP file, and I was using a servlet to check if the fields are null, but apparently this needs to be done on the client side. How do I prevent the form from submitting when the submit button is pressed and a field is empty?

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ page session="false" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
h1 { font-family : cooper black;}
</style>
<title>Add a Phonebook Entry</title></head>
<body>
<h1> Add a Phonebook Entry</h1>
<form action="process.do" method="GET">
<table summary="phonebook entry table">
    <tr>
        <td>Last name:</td>

        <%
        String last = "";
        String first = "";
        String phone = "";

        if(request.getParameter("surname")!=null){
            last = (String) request.getParameter("surname");
        }
        if(request.getParameter("firstname")!=null){
            first = (String) request.getParameter("firstname");
        }

        if(request.getParameter("phone")!=null){
            phone = (String) request.getParameter("phone");
        }
         %>

        <td><input type="text" title="enter your last name here" name="surname" name="initials" size=10 maxlength=10 value=<%= last %> ></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>First name:</td>
        <td><input type="text" name="firstname" size=10 maxlength=10 value=<%=first %> ></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Phone number: </td>
        <td><input type="text" name="phone" maxlength=10 size=10 value=<%=phone %> > </td>
    </tr>
</table>
<br><input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
<p> View the phonebook <a href="./Display.jsp">here</a></p>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 13024

Answers (3)

adam
adam

Reputation: 1

try the following ... should work remeber the <% ..... %>

out.print("Please enter ");
if(fieldname.length()==0){
    out.print("field name");
}
if (fieldname2.length()==0) {
    out.print(" and ");
}
if (fieldname2.length()==0){  
    out.print("field name2");
}
out.println("breakline");

Upvotes: 0

skuntsel
skuntsel

Reputation: 11742

That small piece of JavaScript could be, using jQuery:

$("#form").submit(function() {
    var requiredFailed = true;
    $("#form input:text").each(function() {
        if ($.trim($(this).val()).length == 0) {
            requiredFailed = false;
            return false;
        }
    });
    return requiredFailed;
});

It looks through all inputs of type text and if any input will be null, form won't be submitted.

Upvotes: 1

diggersworld
diggersworld

Reputation: 13090

JavaScript

Basically have a short script which checks all inputs are populated. If not then block the submission request.

You will still have to implement something server side to check the fields, as a user could disable JavaScript. The same goes for my following suggestion.

HTML5

There's also the HTML5 required attribute. I don't think this is supported in all browsers yet.

<input type="text" name="username" required>

If not populated and HTML5 validation is enabled the form will not submit.

Upvotes: 2

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