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Hi, I have a site with a built in 'contact us' form; how can I force
the user to check a certain check box before allowing them to submit
the form? This site is hosted on an ASP enabled godaddy server, but I
figured there was some html or js function that would accomplish this.
Thanks

wrote:
> Hi, I have a site with a built in 'contact us' form; how can I force
> the user to check a certain check box before allowing them to submit
> the form? This site is hosted on an ASP enabled godaddy server, but I
> figured there was some html or js function that would accomplish this.

HTML: impossible
JS: unreliable
Handle it in ASP after the form is submitted

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Nico Schuyt
http://www.nicoschuyt.nl/

Nico Schuyt wrote:
> wrote:
>> Hi, I have a site with a built in 'contact us' form; how can I force
>> the user to check a certain check box before allowing them to submit
>> the form? This site is hosted on an ASP enabled godaddy server, but I
>> figured there was some html or js function that would accomplish
>> this.
>
> HTML: impossible
> JS: unreliable
> Handle it in ASP after the form is submitted

Well, TRY to handle it with JS, but make sure of it on the server. It saves
a lot users an unneccessary trip to the server, get the contents, load the
page, just to get the error that he forgot to check a box after.
--
Rik Wasmus

In the form tag add an onsubmit which calls a JavaScript function to
check whether your checkbox is actually checked. If it isn't return
false with a message of some kind. If it is checked, return true and
then (as others have said) check via ASP to ensure the box was checked.

Easy enough..


On Oct 22, 6:47 pm, lrb...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi, I have a site with a built in 'contact us' form; how can I force
> the user to check a certain check box before allowing them to submit
> the form? This site is hosted on an ASP enabled godaddy server, but I
> figured there was some html or js function that would accomplish this.
> Thanks

Rik wrote:
> Nico Schuyt wrote:
>> wrote:
>>> Hi, I have a site with a built in 'contact us' form; how can I force
>>> the user to check a certain check box before allowing them to submit
>>> the form? This site is hosted on an ASP enabled godaddy server, but
>>> I figured there was some html or js function that would accomplish
>>> this.

>> HTML: impossible
>> JS: unreliable
>> Handle it in ASP after the form is submitted

> Well, TRY to handle it with JS, but make sure of it on the server.
> It saves a lot users an unneccessary trip to the server, ...

But makes things unneccessary complex due to the double validation

--
Nico Schuyt
http://www.nicoschuyt.nl/

To use a JS function, would something like this work:

function checkscript() {
if (window.document.form.BoxChecked.checked=false) {
alert('Warning: Please agree to our terms of service.');
return false;
}
else if (window.document.form.BoxChecked.checked=true) {
alert('Thank you for your business!');
return true;
}

? thanks