Article Discussion: DHTML Form Enhancement

There are few tools to speed up form development. This article illustrates simple ways to provide some basic enhancements to your web application's forms such as validation, automatic submission, and hilighting of the field in focus.


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The examples simply don't work because of typos and undefined functions. Devshed really needs to test this stuff before posting it.

Absolute rubbish otherwise.

care to elaborate on what functions don't work? or what functions are undefined? i use the code all the time in opera/moz/ie5+ with no issues. i'm the author btw - if there's an error i'll be glad to have it corrected.

should be

Also if you don't have a hilight attribute in the form you get an undefined function error. IMHO a cleaner failure would be better.

I was mainly angry over devshed including the extra apostrophe - the typo. The code as presented does not work. The undefined function thingy was a very minor annoyance. My criticism is levelled squarely at devshed, not you the author. I thought the article was quite good.

i see. i don't think i noticed that error before but i'll look into it =) as for the typo, you are correct