How Do You Make A Form Submit Button Return False In Javascript And HTML?
Forcing a form to return false in HTML can be very useful. Returning false for a form just means that it’s normal sumbit action gets canceled. There are two main times that you would want to do this. Either you will never submit the form using GET or POST or you want some sort of function to be ran when you click the submit button and that function will determine the actions of the form. Either way, we need the form to be stopped before it sumbits. The first way is very easy, just insert the attribute onSubmit=return false; into the form tag. Click the image to the left for an example. The second way is fairly easy too, just use a function to return the value and insert this attribute, onSubmit=return myFunction();. If myFunction() returns a false value then the form will return false and stop from submitting, if it returns true, then the form will return true and the form submits. Click the image to the left for an example. Try doing different types of validation on different input ty