button click event lost due to the alert box in text box onblur event

Question

I have created a simple web form, containing one text box and one button. I have captured the onblur event of the text box.

Answer 1

Got it.... I got it working...

Adding explicit call to the button's click in onblur event is not correct, because onblur event can happen any time, like when user move to other text box or click anywhere in the form etc. (as mentioned by Corey Ogburn in comments above). So the button click would be fired though the user didn't actually clicked the button.

So, in onblur event there should be a way to identify that the submit is being clicked and if it is then fire the button's click explicitly. Here is the code,

Here, on mousedown event of the button, which occurs before onblur of the text box, I have set a value to flag clicked and in onblur of the textbox, now I can identify if the button is being clicked or not.

But, again this is just a workarround and OK for such sample application :). It is less feasible in practical because there can be more such submit buttons on the webform and we will have to fire click event of all such buttons (links etc.) in onblur event of the textbox. This is because, user can click on any of the submit buttons (links etc.) after entering data into the textbox and alert/confirm in onblur is going to supress those click events. Hope I am clear.

Enjoy!!!