Why does the onsubmit work on Firefox but not IE

I am using this code for an HTML form and I am using Javascript to do form validation:

<form name = "Reginfo" method="post" action="/cdcsreg/procdata.php" onSubmit = "return verify_data();">

In the "verify_data" script it processes the instructions when I use Firefox and the processing stops, like it should. However, when I use IE the processing continues to "procdata.php".

What could be wrong?

 

IE sux You can cheat a little, and use a plain button, instead of a submit button. and call the javascript using the onclick method.

in your function you could then add code to either submit the for or display and error message like this:

if( code to check if form is valid){
document.getElementByName("RegInfo").submit();
}else{
alert("you didn't do something right");
}

 

I totally agree. I don't really try to even support it anymore when creating scripts. IE 9, though, is MUCH better.

 

I think the problem is in the code of the verify_data(). Possibly it return true somehow in IE and it sends the form to the server.