Just a really simple login and redirect, but the script doesn't fire since I changed the button input type to 'submit' and the onClick event to onSubmit. All is does now is just add the username and password as a string to the url.
<form name="loginform">
<label>User name</label>
<input type="text" name="usr" placeholder="username">
<label>Password</label>
<input type="password" name="pword" placeholder="password">
<input type="submit" value="Login" onSubmit="validateForm();" />
</form>
<script>
function validateForm() {
var un = document.loginform.usr.value;
var pw = document.loginform.pword.value;
var username = "username";
var password = "password";
if ((un == username) && (pw == password)) {
window.location = "main.html";
return false;
}
else {
alert ("Login was unsuccessful, please check your username and password");
}
}
</script>
The input
tag doesn't have onsubmit
handler. Instead, you should put your onsubmit
handler on actual form
tag, like this: <form name="loginform" onsubmit="validateForm()" method="post">
Here are some useful links:
For the form
tag you can specify the request method, GET
or POST
. By default, the method is GET
. One of the differences between them is that in case of GET
method, the parameters are appended to the URL
(just what you have shown), while in case of POST
method there are not shown in URL
.
You can read more about the differences here.
UPDATE:
You should return the function call and also you can specify the URL
in action
attribute of form
tag. So here is the updated code:
<form name="loginform" onSubmit="return validateForm();" action="main.html" method="post">
<label>User name</label>
<input type="text" name="usr" placeholder="username">
<label>Password</label>
<input type="password" name="pword" placeholder="password">
<input type="submit" value="Login"/>
</form>
<script>
function validateForm() {
var un = document.loginform.usr.value;
var pw = document.loginform.pword.value;
var username = "username";
var password = "password";
if ((un == username) && (pw == password)) {
return true;
}
else {
alert ("Login was unsuccessful, please check your username and password");
return false;
}
}
</script>
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