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Hi everybody

Can some one help me out??

My problem is
I am using two forms in my asp page
form1 is used to upload photo, so I used enctype for it and action form1update.asp
and a submit button attached
when clicking on the submit button it should upload file using form1update.asp

form2 consists of 3 text boxes and submit button
action for form2 is form2update.asp
when clicking on submit button in form2, it should update all the details into database using form2update.asp

my problem is whenever i am clicking on upload button (submit button) in form1, instead of action form1update.asp, its going into form2update.asp
can u help me out on this!!!
thanks in advance

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Common causes when a submit for Form A ends up at Form B: overlapping or unclosed form tags, JavaScript submitting the wrong form (or calling a form method that’s been shadowed), and input/name collisions (for example an input named submit that hides the form’s submit() method). ’s Enter-key observation is relevant — different browsers can pick a “default” submit target when markup is invalid — and ’s point that a submit should only submit the form it’s in still holds when the HTML is well-formed. ’s pasted HTML highlights two red flags: a submit control named submit and an image button with a spacey name; both make debugging harder.

Practical checks and fixes: confirm every <form> has a matching </form> and that forms are not nested or split across table cells. Inspect the live DOM in browser DevTools to see how the browser actually parsed the markup. Rename any inputs that are called submit, action, etc., and avoid spaces in control names. Search scripts for any document.forms[0].submit() (or similar) and replace those with a direct element reference (by id) so the intended form is targeted. For file uploads ensure method="post" and enctype="multipart/form-data" are set on that form.

A minimal, safe structure (example):

<form id="uploadForm" method="post" action="form1update.asp" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <input type="file" name="photo">
  <input type="submit" value="Upload Photo">
</form>

<form id="detailsForm" method="post" action="form2update.asp">
  <input type="text" name="firstName">
  <input type="submit" value="Save Details">
</form>

If fixing markup and JS still fails, combining both sets of fields into one form and branching server-side by which submit button was clicked (hidden flag or submit name/value) is a reliable fallback, as suggested; ’s note shows it behaves correctly when the HTML is valid.

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Member Avatar for alpha_foobar

Can you post an example of the code that is being generated by asp?

I ran into this problem in C#.NET... we had to listen for and disable the enter key event... otherwise it always submitted the wrong form.. but clicking was ok.

cheers.

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in asp and html forms the submit button submits the form that it (the submit button) is in.

you are probably using javascript to submit the form or your second form has a if submit then clause.

post the page for more assistance

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I hate to jump in here, but I am having a very similar problem and thought maybe someone could, PLEASE, help. I have two forms. The first form is for for user login and has an onSubmit link to validate the fields. When the submit button is hit for this form, it uses the onSubmit link but then proceeds to use the action from the second form. This only happens if the second forms submit button has been used. Here is the code for the first form:

<form method="post" name="FrmLogin" onSubmit="return Validate_FrmLogin()"  action="<?php echo $CONST_LINK_ROOT?>/prglogin.php">
          <tr>
            <td align="left"><?php echo LOGIN_USERNAME?>
        </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left"><input type="text" class="input" name="txtHandle" size="20" tabindex="1" value="<?=$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[txtHandle_c]?>">
        </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left"><?php echo LOGIN_PASSWORD ?>
        </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left" class="tdeven" > <input name="txtPassword" type="password" class="input" tabindex="2" value="<?=$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[txtPassword_c]?>" size="20">
        </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left" class="tdodd"><?php echo LOGIN_LOG_AUTOMATICALY ?> 
                  <input type=checkbox name="save"<?php if(isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[txtHandle_c])) echo ' checked' ?>> 
                </td>
          </tr>
          <tr > 
                <td colspan="1" align="left"> <input name="submit" type="submit" class="button"  value='<?= BUTTON_LOGIN ?>'> 
                </td>
              </tr>
        </form>

and, the code for the second form:

<form name="dating service" method="POST" action="prgminisearch.php">
          <tr>
        <td height="30" valign="top"><strong>Search for a Date...</strong>
        </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
                <td class="smallest" height="20" valign="bottom"><strong>I am a</strong>
        </td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                <td><select name="lstDatingFrom" size="1" class="inputf">
                  <option value='M' selected><?php echo GENDER_M?></option>
                  <option value='F'><?php echo GENDER_W?></option>
                  <option value='C'><?php echo GENDER_C?></option>
                  </select>
            </td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                <td class="smallest" height="20" valign="bottom"><strong>Seeking a</strong>
            </td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                <td class="smalltext"><select name="lstDatingTo" size="1" class="inputf">
                  <option value='M'><?php echo GENDER_M?></option>
                  <option value='F' selected><?php echo GENDER_W?></option>
                  <option value='C'><?php echo GENDER_C?></option>
                  </select>
        </td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                <td class="smallest" height="20" valign="bottom"><strong>Located in</strong>
        </td>
                <td>&nbsp;</td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                <td><select name="lstDatingCountry" class="inputf">
                  <option selected value="0">
                  <?=SEARCH_ALLCOUNTRIES?>
                  </option>
                  <?while ($country_row = mysql_fetch_object($country_res)){?>
                  <option value="<?=$country_row->gcn_countryid?>">
                  <?=$country_row->gcn_name?>
          </option>
                  <?}?>
                  </select>
        </td>
                <td><input type="image" src="images/go.gif" style="border:0px solid #ffffff;"  width="20" height="21" alt="dating service search" name="dating service search">
        </td>
          </tr>
        </form>

If anyone knows a way around this predicament, please help.

Edited by happygeek because: fixed formatting
Member Avatar for william_stam

this is an asp forum i cant understand php.

ok why not put both forms fields on 1 forum? if you need the second form to retrieve a record from the first form put an if then statement

if form1=submit then
form 2
else
form 1
end if

to my knowledge you cant see if a form was submited so you add a url thing similar to "index.asp?login=true" the if is if the url login=true then

hope it helps if not let me know what you hope to achieve, dont expect any php code though

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and the best answer to the problem goes to wchitamb.

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i am sorry man what happened was when i did reply your thread i did an experiment myself and it was not the best solutions so i could't delete it so i just typed the numbers on top.

no hard feelings man!! SORRY ABOUT THAT.

Member Avatar for paru

Hi...
I have tried with my code... which have two forms..
the first form is to upload the page and second if we submit the form it displays the form entries...
Its working fine...
see each submit button have different events..
there is no confusion... unless otherwise it goes to different asp pages...

Thanks and Regards,
UmaParvathy G K

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