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Posted by Sarah-Kate Ryan
Sarah-Kate Ryan
6,531 Points

The submit button on my website is not working

I'm building a website for a competition. The submit button on my website is not working. Here is the code: <input type="submit" value="Send" class="relative fullwidth col-xs-12 btn"/> What am I doing wrong?

Mike Wagner
Mike Wagner
23,888 Points
Mike Wagner
Mike Wagner
23,888 Points

There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with that code. It's probably somewhere else related. Providing more code or possibly describing the way in which it is not working might be helpful to solving the issue

Nick Wilson
Nick Wilson
5,060 Points

The button is only static html. You need backend PHP to make the button submit to something. You could add an event to the button when clicked that will trigger that it's working. Do you have a php script in place to submit it?

Sarah-Kate Ryan
Sarah-Kate Ryan
6,531 Points

Nick Wilson I have a PHP form but that's it. I'm sorry, but I'm confused on what you're asking.

Sarah-Kate Ryan
Sarah-Kate Ryan
6,531 Points

mwagner when I push the submit button, it doesn't do anything. It just stays on the same page.

3 Answers

Nick Wilson
Nick Wilson
5,060 Points
Nick Wilson
Nick Wilson
5,060 Points

The php form will redirect the webpage to another webpage or message when the button is clicked. You could set up a JavaScript event to test that the button is working. But the button itself doesn't do anything. It's just a button that says submit. If you haven't told the button what to do when it is clicked then the button does nothing. Check out on google a contact form in php.

Sarah-Kate Ryan
Sarah-Kate Ryan
6,531 Points

I've never used JavaScript before.

Sarah-Kate Ryan
Sarah-Kate Ryan
6,531 Points
Sarah-Kate Ryan
Sarah-Kate Ryan
6,531 Points

what i'm trying to do is make an order form for a company. it doesn't want to work correctly.

Mike Wagner
Mike Wagner
23,888 Points
Mike Wagner
Mike Wagner
23,888 Points

Your button is capable of submitting and redirecting you to another page (or even the same page, if you'd like) pretty much all on its own, with a bit of guidance from the form itself. The button itself doesn't require any changes, so I'm guessing the issue you're having is in your form element. This will require an action="example_confirmation.php" type attribute in which example_confirmation.php is a php page of you make to say something like "Your order of ___ was successful. Please check your email for details concerning shipping." or whatever you'd like it to say. It will also require a method="post" attribute in order to actually submit the information to the server for processing, which you will have to write php (or something) to handle for you. You can check out a bit of description, see an example, and even toy around with it a bit here. If you feel like you have it structured the right way, but you're still having problems, let me know and provide your form code and php handling so we can figure it out.