Spry question from within DW CS3

Question

I am using some basic Spry to validate a email address. Page
is at
www.salleboise.com/contact.cfm
I would have thought that Spry wouldn't allow the form to be
submitted if
the validation fails, but it does. In that case, what is the
checkbox in
the properties that says 'submit' used for?

Answer 1

Hello,
The ColdFusion dedicated tags cfform and cfinput are
injecting in the final HTML + JS code that is sent to the browser
some code that you don't see when you design the page. When you do
a source view in the browser you can notice that JavaScript files,
functions and functionalities appear in your page but in the CF
source they aren't present.
Unfortunately this injection of code is interfering with the
code from Spry you use. As deejayMK already told you the onsubmit
Spry Validation Widget is overwritten and the validation widgets
are not working. In this situation 2 possible solutions exists:
1. You can give up to the cfform tag usage if you don't use
anything from this tag functionalities and switch back to the
standard <form> tag from HTML.
2. Add to your page a code that will also register back the
Spry Validation Widgets to the form submit event. For this action
you should add an unique id first to your form. Than you'll have to
add bellow all widgets definition in your page and outside the form
tag the following JS code:
<script type="text/javascript">
var theForm = document.getElementById('theFormId');
Spry.Widget.Utils.addEventListener( theForm, "submit",
function(){return Spry.Widget.Form.validate(theForm);}, false);
</script>
Regards,
Cristian MARIN