I want to verify in JavaScript that my required fields are not blank

Question

Hopefully this is basic JavaScript and the answer is easy since I am new at this. I just want to make sure all required fields are not blank before the user can proceed. In my <

Answer 1

There are a couple issues here:

cn1 = 'child_name'+document.getElementById('child_name').value;

In this case you are assigning cn1 to the String 'child_name' + the value of your child_name textbox... it will never equal an empty String.

Secondly, you'll want your insert() method to return false on error in order to stop the button's intended action.