can someone help me debug??

[falsepride]

im having major javascript problems and i can't figure it out. my url with the page with the problems is http://skatinsatan.jelloz.net/index....articles&num=1 and the url to the js file is http://skatinsatan.jelloz.net/menu.js. can someone please help me soon

O and by the way, ignore the random crap gibberish on the page, i just need an artivcle actualy set up for that page to display, so i just made some gibberish.

[falsepride]

okay ive been going over my script again and again, and i got the erros out, it works with no errors its not just working how i want it to. i want it to re-enable the submit button if 2 feilds in the form are empty, but its re-enabling it if only the author value isnt empty.
Heres all of my javascript dealing with the form. the function load it excuted onload.

function load() {
  if(document.forms["pollform"]) {
    document.forms["pollform"].votebutton.disabled = true;
  }
  if(document.forms["commentform"]) {
    document.forms["commentform"].postbutton.disabled = true;
    tick();
  }
}
function tick() {
  calcCharLeft();
  setTimeout("tick()", 300);
}
function calcCharLeft() {
  maxLength = 500;
  if (document.forms["commentform"].body.value.length > maxLength) {
	document.forms["commentform"].body.value = document.forms["commentform"].body.value.substring(0,maxLength);
	charleft = 0;
	clipped = true;
  } else {
	charleft = maxLength - document.forms["commentform"].body.value.length;
  }
  document.forms["commentform"].msgCL.value = charleft;
  if((document.forms["commentform"].author.value.length !== 0) && (document.forms["commentform"].body.length !== 0)) {
    document.forms["commentform"].postbutton.disabled = false;
  } else {
    document.forms["commentform"].postbutton.disabled = true;
  }
  return false;
}

please help soon, until this is fixed i can't finish setting up the rest of my site

[falsepride]

if((document.forms["commentform"].author.value.length !== 0) && (document.forms["commentform"].body.length !== 0)) {

i think the problem is in that line. which ever i form field is first whether it be author or body is the deciding factor for if the statement evaluates to true, i only want that to evaluta to true if they're both not empty. that way i have another level of control for flooding, they cant submit an empty form because the button is disabled. its not much of a defense, but the more layers of control you have the better.

can someone please help with the problem

[sde]

if((document.forms["commentform"].author.value.length != 0) && (document.forms["commentform"].body.length != 0)) {

'not equal' should be '!=' .. not '!=='

[falsepride]

nope, still didnt work, this is a real ball buster. im gonna try a long way of testing, hopefully itll show an answer. ill have an update soon.

[sde]

either way, use != instead of !==

also, maybe try to reference a form this way: ( this assumes you have the 'name' attribute set )

document.commentform.author.value.length
document.commentform.body.value.length

also, i just noticed you use .body.length and not .body.value.length ... you need .value in there too

[falsepride]

Originally Posted by kaeli69

Only IE and Opera let you screw with globals. Gecko makes you actually reference things properly.

document.forms["deleteform"]
or
document.deleteform (less supported)

and thanks for the pick up on the missing value, that was the problem. works fine now. thanks a million times, i was getting so pissed at this script