cancel button issue

[jiju ka]

In a JSP page there are two buttons - submit and cancel.
The first buton- submit is on a form named 'f' along with other input fields.
The second button is outside form 'f'.

This works fine so far.

Now I introduce third button - save. The save button needs to submit the form f and hence it needs to be in form 'f'.

If all three buttons are put in a row in form 'f' with cancel button in middle (user requirement), then cancel button is going to be in form 'f'.

For cancel action (hitting cancel button), I don't want to submit the form.

How can I keep cancel button in middle but preventing form f being submitted on cancel action?

[Bear Bibeault]

Not even remotely a JSP issue.

Moved to the HTML forum.

[Bear Bibeault]

Originally posted by jiju ka:

For cancel action (hitting cancel button), I don't want to submit the form.

Then don't make it a submit button.

[jiju ka]

Then don't make it a submit button.

I am looking for a solution.

I need to have button for cancel. The server needs to do some action but the form need not be submitted.

The contents of the input fields in the form should not be transfered to the server. It is OK to execute the doGet or doPost method of the servlet.

[Eric Pascarello]

The server needs to do some action but the form need not be submitted

Well the only way that you can talk with the server is to post the page back to it. That is normally done with a form submission.

Eric

[Bear Bibeault]

Originally posted by jiju ka:
The server needs to do some action but the form need not be submitted.

Again, don't make the cancel button a submit button and it will not automatically submit the enclosing form.

In the onclick handler for the non-submit button you can use Ajax to talk back to the server, or you can submit another (perhaps invisible form) to talk back to the server without submitting the "main" form.