After submit, refresh page automatically

[mlseim]

I'm not a javascript expert ...

Here is what I'm trying to do.

I have a form with two radio buttons (On and Off).
When either radio button is clicked, I submit the form to a URL.
I then need to automatically refresh the page after the form is submitted.

This is what I have so far. It currently does submit the form, that works OK (by the way, it is submitting it to itself .. it's a PHP script). But then I need the page to refresh for updating some other things that PHP does.

<form id="myForm1" action="<?=$_SERVER['php_self']?>" method="post">
			OUTPUT 7:
			<input type="radio" id="but7" name="v" value="71" onClick="javascript: submit()"  onMouseOver="style.cursor='hand'"> ON
			<input type="radio" id="but7" name="v" value="70" onClick="javascript: submit()"  onMouseOver="style.cursor='hand'"> OFF
		</form>

[DanInMa]

most likely you can edit the submit function to return true, or simply remove it the onclick function altogether and submit the form as you normally would.

[VIPStephan]

Wow, I’m wondering about the outdated code there? cursor: hand? That hasn’t been valid CSS ever and was only needed for some ancient version of Netscape if I recall correctly. It’s called “pointer” nowadays — and by the way: this can be done with CSS, with a simple line like

input[type=radio]:hover {cursor: pointer;}

As to the submit functionality: don’t use onclick on form controls, use onchange. Also get rid of the javascript: crap in the event handler. It’s only JavaScript that can be executed there, no need to announce that before. On submitting the form the page should refresh automatically, actually, so I don’t know what the problem is?

[mlseim]

Thanks ... I'll work on it. It is old code I just copied and I was using it.

[VIPStephan]

Oh and by the way: the name and id attributes must have unique values each, i. e. there can’t be two elements with the same name/ID in one document. Well, name is kind of an exception in that you can store the name in an array, i. e. give the names square brackets (like name="example[]" on multiple elements) and you can read it out with PHP like example[1] etc.