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From: nobody on 5 May 2008 19:32
On Mon, 05 May 2008 09:04:46 +0100, Geoff Cox <gcox(a)freeuk.notcom>
wrote:

>Hello
>
>I cannot see why this is not working - the idea being to check the
>email address entered and if OK to move to either one of 2 pages - the
>move does not happen.
>
>The code below is in the lower of 2 frames.
>
>Why?!
>
>Cheers
>
>Geoff
>
>
>function getNextPage(){
>var num = Math.random();
> if (num<.5) {
> location.href="group1/group1-lab1.htm";
> } else {
> location.href="group2/group2-lab1.htm";
> }
>}
>
>function validateEmail ( emailField, errorMsg ) {
>emailpat =
>/^([a-zA-Z0-9])+([\.a-zA-Z0-9_-])*@([a-zA-Z0-9])+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)+$/;
> if( !emailpat.test( emailField.value ) ) {
> alert( errorMsg);
> emailField.focus();
> emailField.select();
> return false;
> } else {
> getNextPage();
> }
>}
>
>//-->
></script>
>
></head>
>
><body>
>
><h2>test</h2>
>
><form name="emailForm" onsubmit="validateEmail( this.email , 'Please
>enter a valid email address')">
>Please enter your email address <input type="text" name="email">
><input type="submit" value="enter">
></form>

Try to replace type="submit" with type="button" and call validateEmail
in onclick event.

NNN

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