here's a strange one...i've got this submit button, that has always worked just fine, on a form:

<input type="submit" value="Submit" onclick="myform.email_to.value += ', [email protected]'">

the idea is that on the form the user enters his e-mail address in the email_to text box, then i append my own, and this becomes the destination list for the form handler, which e-mails the contents of the form (including the email_to field) to both of us. never had any trouble with it until a couple of days ago. what happened was that the user got e-mailed a copy of the form, but i didn't. looking at the value of the email_to field, sure enough it had the user's address but not mine.

how can this be? i can't see any way that could happen unless there is some sneaky way a form can be submitted without the onclick event firing on the submit button. i wondered at first if just pressing enter, rather than clicking the button, would skip that event, but it doesn't. any ideas?

How many browsers have you tested with the enter button theory? I'm sure there are some that behave differently. You might want to move this code into the "onSubmit" event handler of the form tag. This should ensure that it gets run even when someone presses enter. The only problem with this is that if you ever submit this form with a bit of JS (myForm.submit()) that onsubmit event doesn't fire. It's very strange but there are ways to work around it.

Peter

think i tested it on ie5.5 and netscape 7.1, though i can't really remember about netscape. i'm waiting to hear from the user who had the problem to find out what browser he used and how he submitted. thanks for the suggestion re: onSubmit; i'll give it a go.