Question

Had some great help yesterday, and have a followup question/problem. Regarding an HTML form, when the user clicks onSubmit=”return outer()”, the function ‘outer’ only returns one of the two functions inside (either checkname or checkpostal). How do I get it to check both functions? Noob question I’m sure, but I want to understand, and not just copy paste from the plethora of forms out there.

var postalconfig = /^\D{1}\d{1}\D{1}\-?\d{1}\D{1}\d{1}$/;

function outer() {
    function checkname(f_name) {
        if (document.myform.f_name.value == "") {
            alert("Enter your First Name");
            return false;
        } else {
            alert("valid First Name");
            return true;
        }
    }
    return checkname();

    function checkpostal(postal_code) {
        if (postalconfig.test(document.myform.postal_code.value)) {
            alert("VALID postal");
            return true;
        } else {
            alert("INVALID postal");
            return false;
        }
    }
    return checkpostal();
} //end of outer

The HTML:

<form name="myform" action="index.php" onSubmit="return outer();" method="post">
  First Name
  <input name="f_name"  type="text" />
  <br />
  Telephone
  <input name="telephone" type="text" />
  <br />
   <input name="Submit" type="submit"  value="Submit Form" >
</form>

Answer 1

the execution of the function outer() stops whenever your return.

try this single return statement:

return  checkname() && checkpostal();