Asp.Net Mvc remote validation textbox focus issue - asp.net-mvc

I have a single textbox on a form - basically to allow users to change the URL of their site in our mini CMS. We use remote validation to check that the URL is not already taken.
They enter their desired URL and hit the save button. If they do just that and the focus goes from the textbox straight to the submit button - the validation does not happen and the form doesn't submit properly. If they tap into an area of whitespace then the form does.
The issue with the form submitting is that if they tap whitespace we get the name of the submit button posted along with the desired URL - we use the (AcceptParameterAttribute) to allow us to route form submits to the right Action. This uses the submit buttons name attribute to do this. If they don't click whitespace to lose focus on the text box then only the desired URL is posted.
This is a really odd one and it is very annoying. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Is there a way to overcome the problem?

Try adding the following script to the page:
$(":input").live("blur", function () {
$(this.form).validate().element(this);
});
This should cause validation to occur when you click on the submit button. If not, try changing the first line to:
$(":submit").live("click", function () {

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How can I manipulate a form / inputs to be ignored when a form is submitted

I'm using ExpressionEngine and SafeCracker along with Ajax (plugin: jquery.form.js - http://jquery.malsup.com/form/).
Best I can tell, SafeCracker will only allow for updating a single entry at a time. However, the UI / UX necessitates that a list be displayed. I've proof of concept'ed an entry by entry on-demand form. That is, click a particular edit link next to each entry and a snippet of jquery creates a form along with displaying a submit button. Click submit and that single entry updates. The inputs don't exist until the Update link is clicked
What I would prefer to do, if possible, is to create the non-form and form versions of each entry as the page is renbered and use some sort of toggle to display one or the other. Again, doable. Then, when I click the Edit link I'd add the necessary attributes to the input so that entry's form elements will be read but the other (display: none) elements for the other entries will be ignored. I'm thinking (out loud) that if I add the attr("name", some-value) that would work. That is, an input with no name will be ignored.
Yes, I can test this and I will. However, even if it works I'm not sure if it's a best practice and/or there's a more ideal way of accomplishing my ends. I'm here looking for validation and/or additional expertise and input.
Thanks in advance.
Just set disabled property to inputs and they will excluded from Form submission, whatever input fields are hidden or visible. Different jQuery methods, like submit() and serialize() follow specification of HTML 4 and exclude all disabled controls of a forms. So one way is to set
$('your_input').prop('disabled', true);
or ,
$('your_input').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
Check following link:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#successful-controls
Also, you may use a general button instead of a submit, as result you can handle click event on it and within that event you can make exclusion, validation, manipulation on values and what ever you like.
You can put a disabled attribute on them server side or set the property via jQuery:
$(".hidden input").prop("disabled", true);

Rails: Prevent duplicate entry from simultaneous submission

We're having a problem with our app allowing people to sign up multiple times with the same account information (email, specifically).
Our user model validates the uniqueness of the email parameter, and we are also using some javascript to make sure that once the "sign up" button is clicked, it becomes unusable unless the sign up fails (theoretically ensuring only a single click).
It appears that the problem stems from users double-clicking the signup button before the javascript on the page finishes loading.
Is there a way from the Rails side that we can prevent this? Maybe something that creates a request stack, and then iterates through them? I ask because we can't be the only site that has this issue.
Thanks
Dumb question: Why don't you set the field in the database itself to unique?
If that is not possible, do what Steve Bourne suggested and use something like this:
var clicked = false;
$('#submit_button').click( function() {
$(this).preventDefault();
if(!clicked) {
clicked = true;
$('#submit_button').attr('disabled','disabled');
$('#form').submit();
}
Now, I didn't test that so setting clicked = true may be overkill ;)
Set the text field to Nothing right after the insert.
Not entirely convinced that's what's happening, but another option would be to only enable the submit button in jQuery's ready function, and start off with it hidden or disabled. Are you running a large amount of JS outside of the ready function?
If the problem is that users submit the form before your javascript is finished loading, why not make that impossible? (i.e. the submit button action doesn't submit the form, but your javascript submits on the click event?)
There are a few ways to then prevent dupes in JS; sounds like you've got that covered already.

Orbeon: creating my own delete button

2/28: Seems the Go uri is only if you create your own persisten layer. I'm going to try and use a link on my form to do this. If I can figure out how to find the form_id of the current form.
Original Question:
I'm trying to restrict who can delete a form instance. It seems if people can get to the form-runner summary page, they can click the delete button and delete a form (even if they are not allowed to do any "/orbeon/fr/hr/expense-report/edit/*" options.
Anyone found a way around this issue. I wonder if we could use the GO button on the form /edit/ view to build our own delete feature.
If I look at the page source from the hr/expense-report/edit/f36b446c3ddbf7c63ec033d5c6fa7ce4 view, that the from does have the details to the actual form instance.
Example:
form id="xforms-form" class="xforms-form xforms-initially-hidden xforms-layout-nospan" action="/orbeon/fr/Test/Hidden_Search/edit/f36b446c3ddbf7c63ec033d5c6fa7ce4"
I wonder if that information could be passed to the "GO" button, if I have that on my page?
Right now, if users can access the Form Runner summary page, they can also access the "delete" button. Showing the "delete" button on the summary page for some users but not others, requires a change to Form Runner, which shouldn't very complicated.
For instance, if you only want the "delete" button to be shown for users with the role can-delete, on this xforms:bind of fr/summary/view.xhtml add the attribute:
relevant="xxforms:is-user-in-role('can-delete')"

how to reset page text boxes data after page post back?

my question seems simple and stupid
but first read this,
suppose you have a login form which take username and password and post back to controller
if login successful then return Homepage(return View("HomePage")) View (not Redirect) then suppose i am Logged off
and return Login (return View("Login")) View (again not Redirect) and now if i press Back button and Refresh the page then it will automatically get logged IN by using those username and password which i entered before.
So can i make those password Null from Browser's Memory or where ever it is i don't know.
"i know that not redirecting (RedirectToAction("ViewName")) is causing the problem" But Why or May be i don't know any important concept
Some browsers, especially Firefox try to be helpful and 'remember' values you have input into text fields and checkboxes. in order to switch this off in a particular input add the following attribute
autocomplete="off"
Alternatively, using jQuery you can switch it off for a whole form:
$("form").attr("autocomplete", "off");
ModelState.Remove("key");
or
ModelState.Clear()

How do I repopulate everything in a wizard style page for ASP.NET MVC?

I've got a page that creates a ticket in our help desk system. It acts as a wizard with the following steps:
Step 1
User selects the customer from a dropdown list. There is a jquery onchange event that fires and generates the list for step 2 and hides the step1 div and shows the step2 div.
Step 2
User selects the location from a dropdown list. This is generated based on the customer selected in step 1. There is a jquery onchange event that fires and generates the list for step 3 and hides the step2 div and shows the step3 div.
Step 3
User selects the type from a dropdown list and enters text into 3 different text boxes. If the user fails to enter text or enters invalid text my controller changes the model state to invalid and returns the view.
How can I get all the dropdowns to repopulate again with the correct selection the user chose and get the page to redisplay on Step 3?
My first thought was to use ajax and when the user clicks the Create button, I could create the ticket from there and if successful send them to the ticket detail. If unsuccessful, well just display an error message and i'm still on the page so no big deal. Now that I write it out I think this is best. Are there any major issues using ajax? It seems most sites use some type of javascript or ajax these days.
Second thought is to not use ajax at all and submit all the pages to the server.
What do you suggest?
The 3 steps display completely different markup.
There is possibly not much you can gain by an AJAX-version, except the avoided page flicker when you change the steps.
If you go the non-AJAX way you gain:
nice bookmarkable links ( www.ticketsystem.com/Customer -> www.ticketsystem.com/Customer/Microsoft/ -> www.ticketsystem.com/Customer/Microsoft/Location -> www.ticketsystem.com/Customer/Microsoft/Location/Redmond )
browser history works
easier testing
To redisplay the lists after step 3 you would load all of them and set the selected item according to the parameter in the URL.
I agree with you. Use AJAX to submit the ticket.

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