Thank you alert upon form submission

Question

I have a very basic form at http://www.happyholidaylites.com/contact.html and it is working great. When you submit the form, the user is brought to the index.html with no message that the form has been sent. I am looking to initiate an alert that says, "your form has been submitted" with an x button. My code looks like this:

      <form method="post" id="myForm" action="dynaform.php">

      <input type='hidden' name='rec_mailto' value='JBIRD1111@gmail.com'>
      <input type='hidden' name='rec_subject' value='New Contact Form'>
      <input type='hidden' name='rec_thanks' value='index.html'>

so on and so forth.....

The last line is what is telling the form what to do after the submit button is pressed, but I dont want it to point the browser to the index, rather I want a javascript popup with a success message. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Why not a simple onSubmit?

<form method="post" id="myForm" action="dynaform.php" onSubmit="alert('Thank you for your feedback.');" >

Answer 2

To be honest you are better re-directing to another page in order to avoid the user re-submitting the page on a refresh. Have a look at Post/Redirect/Get Pattern.

Popups can be extremely annoying on websites. You should create a page called "thank-you.html" that you can re-direct the user to on successful submission which has access to the site navigation options or even just do a re-direct back to the form page after a few seconds.

Answer 3

Instead of redirecting to index.html, redirect to thanks.html; your users will thank you because everybody hates popups!

Answer 4

Sounds like your PHP script handles the form submission by processing the input and redirecting the browser to the value in the rec_thanks field.

You can add something like onsubmit="YourJavaScriptFunction()" to the form tag to add client-side behavior prior to actually submitting the form. Within that function you can perform validation, use alert('Thank You!'), etc..