Question

<form method="post" action="/Order/CheckOut/" onSubmit="return Validate()">

and then…

function Validate() {
    alert($("#email").val());
    return false;
}

The messed up part is when I take out the alert it works fine, the submit fails, but when I put the alert in, it allows the submit to go through… what the heck?

I also tried this:

function Validate() {
    if(document.getElementByID("email").value == "test"){
        alert("It says test.");
    }
    return false;
}

and got the same behavior, it would never make it to the return statement…

If I step through the JS with firebug and break at the alert or the if (depending on the version above) it stops there, and I click ‘step into’ and it just submits the form, why isn’t it making it to the return false line?

Answer 1

Why not wrap it in a try block?

function Validate() {
    try {
        alert($("#email").val());
    } catch (e) {
        alert("Problem: " + e);
    }

    return false;
}