Question

In form validation, on blur, a data validation gets triggered. IN this form, I have 3 different onblur possible triggers. But if one triggers, I get two alert boxes, which means, two funcitons were triggered.

The form (html code):

<form id="processpayment" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<table class="paypal">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="etiqueta" width="50%"><label>Nombre</label></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input id="nombre" class="requerido" type="text" name="nombre" value="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="etiqueta"><label>Forma de comunicación</label></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span id="medio" class="requerido">Skype</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="etiqueta"><label id="label_medio_id">Usuario de Skype</label></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input id="medio_id" class="requerido" type="text" name="medio_id" value="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="etiqueta"><label id="confirm:label_medio_id">Verifica usuario de Skype </label></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input id="confirm:medio_id" class="requerido" onblur="confirm_data(this.id);" type="text" name="confirm:medio_id" value="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="checkbox" colspan="2"><input id="warningpaypalverified" class="requerido" type="checkbox" name="warningpaypalverified" value="payment constraints acknowledged" /><label class="alerta">Pagos de tarjeta de crédito son procesados inmediatamente.<br /><br /> En caso de que use su cuenta PayPal, es necesario ser verificado por PayPal con anterioridad.<br /><a id="explain" class="explain" onclick="explain('La conversación inmediata tiene como característica el comunicarse con alguien inmediatamente.\n\nCuando PayPal no ha verificado su cuenta estos pagos toman mas de 24 horas.\n\nSi desea una conversación inmediata, pague con tarjeta de crédito.')">Por que es esto necesario</a></label></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="paypal" colspan="2"><input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="http://root.com/process/listener.php" /> <input type="hidden" name="locale.x" value="es_XC" /> <input class="alldata" type="hidden" name="custom" value="" /> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick" /> <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="http://root.com/images/root_logo.png" /> <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="THISANDTHAT" /> <input class="paypal" type="image" name="submit" src="https://www.paymentobjects.com/es_XC/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" alt="PayPal, la forma más segura y rápida de pagar en línea." /> <img src="https://www.paymentobjects.com/es_XC/i/scr/pixel.gif" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</form>

I have following javascript code:

function clear_fields(fieldid, confirm_fieldid){
        document.getElementById(fieldid).value = "";
        if (typeof(confirm_fieldid) !== 'undefined'){ document.getElementById(confirm_fieldid).value = ""; }
        document.getElementById(fieldid).focus();
        return false; 
    }

function validate_email(email_field_id){

        email = typeof(email_field_id) != 'undefined' ? document.getElementById(email_field_id) : function(){alert('Parameter error when calling Validate Email. Check your form'); return;}();

        var reg = /^([A-Za-z0-9_\-\.])+\@([A-Za-z0-9_\-\.])+\.([A-Za-z]{2,4})$/;

        if( reg.test(email.value) == false ) {

            alert('El email que ingresaste no es correcto. Por favor, intenta nuevamente siguiendo este formato [e-mail]');

            return clear_fields(email_field_id);

        } else { return true; }

    }

function confirm_email( confirm_email_field_id ){

        var confirmemail = typeof(confirm_email_field_id) != 'undefined' ? document.getElementById(confirm_email_field_id) : function(){alert('Parameter error when calling javascript function confirm_email(). Check your form, and make sure input field for confirm email calls the function confirm_email("confirm:email_id");'); return;}();

        var confirmemailarray = confirmemail.id.split(':'); 

        var email = document.getElementById(confirmemailarray[1]);

        if( email.value === confirmemail.value ) {    

            return true;

        } else { 

            alert("ERROR: \"Email\" no coincide con \"Confirmar Email\". \n Agrega tu \"Email\" y CONFIRMA este Email")

            return clear_fields(email.id, confirmemail.id);

        }

    }

function confirm_data(confirm_data_field_id){

        if( typeof(confirm_data_field_id) == 'undefined'){

            alert('Parameter error when calling javascript function confirm_data. Check your form, and make sure input field to confirm data calls the function confirm_data("confirm:data_field_id");'); 

            return;

        } else {

            var confirmidarray = confirm_data_field_id.split(':'); 

            thedata = document.getElementById(confirmidarray[1]);

            confirmthedata = document.getElementById(confirm_data_field_id);

            if( thedata.value == confirmthedata.value ) return true;
            else {

                thedatalabel = document.getElementById('label_' + thedata.id);
                confirmthedatalabel = document.getElementById('confirm:label_' + thedata.id);

                alert('ERROR: Los datos que ha ingresado en los campos de informacion \n\n' + thedatalabel.innerHTML + '\n' + confirmthedatalabel.innerHTML + '\n\n NO COINCIDEN. \n\n Para proceder con su pago agregue la informacion correcta.' );

                return clear_fields( confirmidarray[1], confirmidarray[0] + ':' + confirmidarray[1] );

            }

        }

    }

Why is this happening?

What changes do I need to do?

Thank you

Answer 1

In some browsers, an alert() can trigger focus events (because focus goes to the alert box and then back to the page afterwards). When debugging this kind of issue, it’s better to use console.log() which doesn’t mess with focus to record what’s going on and you can then just look at the log to see what really happened without having changed the behavior.