HTML - Validation Problem: Byte-order Mark

I'm using Godaddy's gdform.php form mailer for my forms. The forms work perfectly except the validation. I need the visitors to fill in the fields and then submit the information to my email, but the problem is that everyone can submitt even if he doesn't fill in the form. I want all of the fileds to be required. Is there something wrong with the code ? Here it is :




<form action="/gdform.php" method="post">
<table align="center">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Form Submission">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="/Add/thankmes.html">
<input type="hidden" name="required" value="YourName, Email, description">
<tr>
<td><p><font color=WHITE font size=4>Your Name:</p> </font></td> <td align=center height=50><p><input type="text" name="YourName" size="52"/></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><font color=WHITE font size=4>Your E-mail:</p> </font></td> <td height=50><p><input type="text" name="Email" size="52"/></p></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><p><font color=WHITE font size=4>Your Message:</p> </font></td> <td><br><p><textarea name="description" cols="40" rows="5">
</textarea></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Hi Ya,

I am trying to validate the telephone number for a form. I would really like some help.
You see when i leave the telephone field blank the code error message comes up telling me that i cant leave that field blank. When i then put in illegal characters it says that i used illegal characters but instead of clearing the feild,allowing me to type the correct phone number and then moving onto the getradio if statement it goes to receipt page when the submit button is clicked instead of doing the validate checks first and then moving onto the receipt.html page.

This is the problem area.
Code:

 if (form.phone.value == "")
  {
	
    alert("Please enter your telephone number for shipping Information.");
    form.phone.focus();
    return (false);
  }
  else
	{
		validate();
		
	}

  if (getRadio("pay") == null)
  {
    alert("Please choose a payment method.");
    return (false);
  }
  return (true);
  }

  //--></script>

	<script language="javascript">
	function validate()
	{
		if (isNaN(parseInt(this.value))) 
		{
   		alert("The phone number contains illegal characters.");
		form.phone.focus();
		return (false);
		}
	}
//--></script>

The below code is for the form.
Code:

<FORM  name="information" action="..\..\Cars\GT\receipt.html" method="get" onSubmit=" return form_Validator(this)"> <!-- Tells the button what action to take -->

The below code is the full validation check function
Code:

<!-- This is used to validate the radio buttons to make sure that one of those options are pressed -->
<script language="javascript">
function getRadio(radioName){
    var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input');
    var ret = null;
    for(var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++){
        if(inputs[i].type == 'radio' && (inputs[i].name == radioName || inputs[i].id == radioName) && inputs[i].checked){
            ret = inputs[i].value;
        }
    }
    return ret;
}

<!-- This is used to validate the text boxes to make sure that an item is written into it -->
<!-- I f the next box remains empty an error message appears -->
function form_Validator(form)
{
 	
	

  if (form.first_name.value == "")
  {
    alert("Please enter your first name for shipping Information.");
    form.first_name.focus();
return (false);
     }

  if (form.last_name.value == "")
  {
    alert("Please enter your last name for shipping Information.");
    form.last_name.focus();
    return (false);
  }
  
 if (form.address.value == "")
  {
    alert("Please enter your address for shipping Information.");
    form.address.focus();
    return (false);
  }
  if (form.acode.value == "")
  {
    alert("Please enter the area code for shipping Information.");
    form.acode.focus();
    return (false);
  }


 if (form.phone.value == "")
  {
	
    alert("Please enter your telephone number for shipping Information.");
    form.phone.focus();
    return (false);
  }
  else
	{
		validate();
		
	}

  if (getRadio("pay") == null)
  {
    alert("Please choose a payment method.");
    return (false);
  }
  return (true);
  }

  //--></script>

	<script language="javascript">
	function validate()
	{
		if (isNaN(parseInt(this.value))) 
		{
   		alert("The phone number contains illegal characters.");
		form.phone.focus();
		return (false);
		}
	}
//--></script>
</head>

Hello,
I have an trouble with an html form validation called in a div with a javascript code for form validation.

I have a main page in which I have a named div(workplace) where I call a html form page.
Once the form page is called in the "workplace" div, the form is working, I can submit the entries to the database but the javascript validation doesn't work.
But if I open the form in a decicated browser window then the javascript form validation works.

I want to use div because everywhere I'm reading that "frames" is the devil and I should use div tag instead.

Where could be my trouble? Your help is appreciated.
Below there are my main page & form page.


Main page html code
Code:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../library/ajax_navagation.js"></script>
<title>My Web page</title>
</head>

<body>
<div id="Menu">
        <p><a href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="open_url('../admin/adduser.html', 'workplace');">Add user</a></p>
        <p><a href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="open_url('../admin/showusers.php', 'workplace');">Show users</a></p>
</div>

<div id="workplace"></div>


</body>
</html>

Add user form with javascript for form validation
Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function MM_validateForm() { //v4.0
  if (document.getElementById){
    var i,p,q,nm,test,num,min,max,errors='',args=MM_validateForm.arguments;
    for (i=0; i<(args.length-2); i+=3) { test=args[i+2]; val=document.getElementById(args[i]);
      if (val) { nm=val.name; if ((val=val.value)!="") {
        if (test.indexOf('isEmail')!=-1) { p=val.indexOf('@');
          if (p<1 || p==(val.length-1)) errors+='- '+nm+' must contain an e-mail address.\n';
        } else if (test!='R') { num = parseFloat(val);
          if (isNaN(val)) errors+='- '+nm+' must contain a number.\n';
          if (test.indexOf('inRange') != -1) { p=test.indexOf(':');
            min=test.substring(8,p); max=test.substring(p+1);
            if (num<min || max<num) errors+='- '+nm+' must contain a number between '+min+' and '+max+'.\n';
      } } } else if (test.charAt(0) == 'R') errors += '- '+nm+' is required.\n'; }
    } if (errors) alert('The following error(s) occurred:\n'+errors);
    document.MM_returnValue = (errors == '');
} }
//-->
</script>

Add new user

<form action="../ui/admin/adduser.php" method="post" name=adduser onSubmit="MM_validateForm('username','','R','password','','R',);return document.MM_returnValue">
<table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<td width="100">Username</td>
<td><input name="username" type="text" id="username">
*</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100">Password</td>
<td><input name="password" type="text" id="password">
*</td>
<tr>
<td width="100">&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100">&nbsp;</td>
<td><input name="add" type="submit" id="add" value="Add New User" ></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...idator%2F1.767

http://www.ilustrationbeast.com/bio.html

on every page the same thing pops up as incorrect, and i'm not really sure what it's asking me to do?

without that line the image map doesn't work, but apparently it's incorrect to have it there as is?

i tried to mess with it, and i'm gonna go ahead and say i failed

Hi,

I'm trying to debug some code and, in spite of running it cleanly through the W3C validator, still have some big issues. The site runs fine in Chrome but displays incorrectly in IE and FireFox. You can see the site at www.iwailingwall.com

Firefox is giving the following error:

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIXMLHttpRequest.statusText]" nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)" location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsBlocklistService.js :: anonymous :: line 548" data: no]
Source File: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsBlocklistService.js
Line: 548

IE is not showing any errors.

I would really appreciate any help on the display issue as well as a pointer to browser-specific code validators if they exist.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Please let me know if I can provide any additional information to assist in a diagnosis. The problematic code is:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>The Wailing Wall</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<!-- SWFObject embed by Geoff Stearns geoff@deconcept.com http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js" />

<style type="text/css">
textarea#styled {
width: 600px;
height: 120px;
border: 3px solid #cccccc;
padding: 5px;
font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;
background-color: rgb(255,255,204);
background-position: bottom right;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
body { padding: 20px;
background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);
font-family: Calibri;
font-size: larger;
color: rgb(255, 255, 204);
font-weight: bolder;
text-align: center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body style="background-image: url(HortonRockWall2.jpg);text-align:center;">
<table align="center">

<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td align="left" >
<font size="8" />The Wailing Wall <br />
<font size="4" />Tuck your worries here, snug among all our worries. <br />We'll keep them safe so you can let them go.
</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td><table><tr><td>
<div id="flashcontent">This will be shown to users with no Flash or Javascript.</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var myWidth = 0, myHeight = 0;

var maxHeight = 0;
myWidth = 600;
myHeight = 600;
if (myWidth > myHeight) maxHeight = .75* myHeight; else maxHeight = .75* myWidth;
var so = new SWFObject("tagcloud.swf", "tagcloud", maxHeight, maxHeight, "7", "#000000");
// uncomment next line to enable transparency
so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
so.addVariable("tcolor", "0xFFFFCC");
so.addVariable("mode", "tags");
so.addVariable("distr", "true");
so.addVariable("tspeed", "60");

so.addVariable("tagcloud", "%3Ctags%3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D98%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EAdd+to+the+wall+here....%3C%2 Fa%3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D97%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EAdd+to+the+wall+here....%3C%2Fa%3E% 3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D96%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EI+hate+meetings+about+meetings...%3C%2Fa% 3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D94%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EI+am+worried+that+the+recessio...%3C%2 Fa%3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D84%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EI+think+that+this+is+a+really+...%3 C%2Fa%3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D75%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EI+often+worry+that+I+am+a+****.. .%3C%2Fa%3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D74%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EI+worry+that+I%27ve+spent+4+y ea...%3C%2Fa%3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D73%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EI+worry+that+my+son+is+in heren...%3C%2Fa%3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D72%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EOne+worry+I+have+is+th at+someo...%3C%2Fa%3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D71%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EI+am+worried+about+ the+possibi...%3C%2Fa%3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D70%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EWhen+this+electi on+is+over%2C+I+...%3C%2Fa%3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D69%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EI+am+worrie d+about+what+I+am+g...%3C%2Fa%3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D68%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EIt%27s+f all+again+and+the+weath...%3C%2Fa%3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D67%27+style%3D%2710%27%3EI%27 m+worried+about+what%27s+goi...%3C%2Fa%3E%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D66%27+style%3D%2710%27%3 EHopefully+this+isn%27t+meta-ana...%3C%2Fa%3E%26nbsp%3B%26nbsp%3B+%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fpage%3D2%27+style%3D%2710%27%3ENe xt%3C%2Fa%3E++%3Ca+href%3D%27%2Findex.php%3Fpage%3D2%27+style%3D%2710%27%3ELast+Page%3C%2Fa%3E+%3Ca+ href%3D%27%2Findex.php%27+style+%3D%2710%27%3EReturn+to+main+page.%3C%2Fa%3E%3C%2Ftags%3E");so.write ("flashcontent");
</script>
</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"> <font size='2' />Based on WP-Cumulus by <a href="http://www.roytanck.com/">Roy Tanck</a></td></tr>
</table></td>
<td valign='top'>

<table style="width: 407px; margin-left: 30px; border-width:3;">

<tr>
<td style="width: 383px;">
<form action='/index.php' method='post' name='contact_form' /> <textarea name="body" rows="5" cols="40">Add to the wall here.</textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 383px;"><font size="3" />By:
<input name="name" value="Anonymous" type="text" /><input value="Submit" name="Submit" type="submit" /><input value="Reset" name="Reset" type="reset" />

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 383px;">
<input name='reference' type='hidden' value='0' />What do you need to let go of? </td>
</tr>


</table>

</td>
</tr>

</table>
</body>
</html>

Hi,

I'm trying to validate one of my HTML pages using HTML 4.0 Transitional. I have cleared all errors listed apart from one.

The error is:

Code:

The tag name: "embed" Not found in currently active versions.[HTML 4.0]

I have added a flash annimation and used the embed tag for it to work in mozilla. If i remove the embed tag it works in IE but not in mozilla.

This is the section of script the error is refering too:

Code:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" 
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"
 width="305" height="15" title="Sherborne Contemporary Arts">
<param name="movie" value="animation/logo/logo_text.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high"><param name="LOOP" value="false">
<embed src="animation/logo/logo_text.swf" width="305" height="15" loop="false"
 quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" 
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>

Im using dreamweaver so i don't know which bits i can strip out. i do know if i strip out the embed tag flash wont show in mozilla but it still works in IE.

Is there a valid fix for this?

How else can i show flash both in IE6/7 and mozilla making sure it validates.

Cheers in advance

Rick

Hi.

My entire site is 100% XHTML1.1. Except for some new code I added which causes errors in validation.

the code is
HTML Code:

<a href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/"  onclick="window.open('http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=en_it&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href));return false;" title="Translate to Italian"><img title="Italian" src="http://geekimo.com/licons/it.png" alt="Italian" /></a>

I understand maybe CDATA islands can help with this? or making it external? but I have no idea how to do that with it having html code in there too.. I don't know if you can surround it in CDATA tags.

There are other lines of code too, exactly the same except have different languages.

Any help would be awesome!

Hi Gang,

I'm currently trying to clean up my webpage code and for the most part it's going well - there's only one small problem:

Many parts of my site link to external URLS with long "$_GET"-inspired addresses. (For example, "abc.php?id=xyz&itemid=frog"

The problem is that W3C validation throws up a red flag whenever it sees an "field=xyz" part of a url, giving the messages:

Quote:
general entity "field" not defined and no default entity.
every time it stumbles across an ampersand in the URL and:

Quote:
reference to entity "field" for which no system identifier could be generated.
every time it stumbles across an equals sign.

I'm *sure* there must be some way around this - surely W3C can acknowledge _GET URLS somehow? If anyone can offer any suggestions I'd be very appreciative.

Many thanks,
- SuperGrover :-)

i need order list with brakets like:-

( i ) abc

( ii ) def

thankx budiesssss

Alright so in what order should I learn the basic things of web design? I want a really cool site that look professional. So basically I want to learn HTML, XHTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, and PHP. What order should I learn those? Is that knowledge enough to make a stunning website?


----------------------

I am closing in on XHTML/CSS using the book Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML, can anyone tell me which should be the next 2 books I should order to continue with learning web development please?

i have a drop down list which when activated gets covered by another object on the site, is there anything that can be done to fix this visual order problem....

p.s. the blocking object is an image as well as a form dropdownlist (ddl).

I'm trying to impliment a work order system on my website, and example can be seen here of the work order system beta i'm working on,

http://www.army.mil/oldguard/workorder/pworkorder.htm

I need to be able to assign a work order number automatically that will not only go in the e-mail that flexmail sends out from the form, but also lets the user know what their work order number will be. Also, the work order number should not increase unless there is a successful form submission.

The army is paranoid so we have no access to asp, php, perl, or cgi on the server, has to all be done with ajax, javascript, and html.

The only other 3rd party software is felxmail and all it handles is the sending of the information fed to it via e-mail.

Thank for any help you can provide.

Hi all,
I am new here and this will be my first official question. I am a complete beginner at this and would like some advice. I am currently learning HTML and would like to know this...
Given all the advancements in web programming languages, in what order would you all suggest learning them. I am pretty sure HTML stands out as numero uno on the list but where from there and in what order would you learn them.
Thanks in advance for you help and I look forward to being a member of this forum.

Hi,

how can I rearrange items by name or genre?
I want to make a sort of collection for a few movies, with information about actors and so on.
I have the information for each movie in a div tag. What do I have to do so that when I click, let's say on name, it lists the movies alphabetically?

Is there any solution for this? Or generally how would you do this?

Thank you.