For anybody who is semi-experienced with Microsoft FrontPage for web design, I'm having an issue.

My business website has a couple of forms on it, designed using MS FrontPage.  The forms work just fine when using Internet Explorer, but not at all when using a Mac browser (including iPhones).  The form displays and is formatted properly, but the "submit" buttons don't work.

Any ideas?

Is your web site hosted?  There might be some frontpage extensions that need to be loaded on the web server.  I had a similar problem and turned out that I had to get my host (godaddy) to load a couple of modules to get it to work.

Eddie

Is this a public URL that you could throw out there?

Could be a couple things, from server extensions as ejtaylor mentions, or if the developer tied some type of javascript to the button click event, it could be written in a manner that other browsers just do not support.

the website is www.hlvirtualtours.com

The specific forms I am talking about are located at:

www.hlvirtualtours.com/order.htm

www.hlvirtualtours.com/opt_out.htm

When you fill out the forms on using Internet Explorer, then press submit, you will get a basic confirmation page, and I get an e-mail with the form information.  However, when you fill out the form on a Mac, a couple problems appear:

1)  All the forms require input, so if you miss a field and hit "submit" the browser prompts you to enter something into that field, but then still goes ahead to the confirmation page, even though the form information never gets submitted.

2)  There are separate confirmation pages for the different forms, since they are for two different things, but the "Opt Out" form routes back to the "Order" confirmation page, and also doesn't ever actually submit the information.

Looking at the source on that form (as an aside, you may want to think about putting the javascript in an include instead of directly in the form) and the issues you describe I would bet that javascript is functioning differently on those browsers.

I did a quick google on the onsubmit action, those browsers are not correctly reacting to the false being returned. To verify this, try pushing an alert statement into the form validator at various points to verify that 'false' is actually being returned. I think though that with the messages you are seeing, that this is the case.

I would have to play with that specific browser the issue occurs in. Have you tired it on firefox on a windows box? Also, could you get the specific browser name and version for the mac? I would run a quick test but I live in a pure MS world and do not have access to a mac.

FYI, same thing happens on Firefox on a Windows Vista box. It does not manage it correctly there either.

Sorry dude...you made me look and it was freacking obvious. You have an Anchor tag ("A") around your opt in button. So it is submitting the form which fails then the link on the button is getting activated and the click for THAT is firing.

Try removing the hyperlink from your button.

Not to hijack this post but a lot of hosting companies no longer support FrontPage and Microsoft replaced FrontPage w/ Expression Web.  I love FrontPage but I need to start using a different HTML editor.

hijack away Joshua. LOL. Really this looks like a javascripting error more than anything.

The page is really just HTML with some client site Javascript to manage page validation and submission.

IE being IE it is acting a bit differently in terms of the anchor tag than say, every other browsers I looked at the site through. Go figure.

Sorry dude...you made me look and it was freacking obvious. You have an Anchor tag ("A") around your opt in button. So it is submitting the form which fails then the link on the button is getting activated and the click for THAT is firing.

Try removing the hyperlink from your button.

Thanks a lot, that did the trick.  I don't write any code, I just use the WYSIWYG side of Frontpage, so I never even thought to check the code.

anytime. When I really got into web coding the first thing I learned on was FrontPage. I learned to loathe it quickly. It freaquently tries to "help" you  by inserting tags into the page, reformat your code, and such.