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Yes, am sure lots of you could have told me about yesterday’s Colour Coded Form With Onsubmit Captcha Tutorial … But what about mobile? Well, it’s your turn to say … Told you so. It’s the scenario whereby there is an onsubmit event logic defined and the user gets any chance at the “keyboard”, if they use the “go” button (at least on iOS) that was circumventing the Captcha logic we’d introduced. In the remedy, we got so very close to totally using, for the first time, the relatively recent … “inert” attribute (thanks to this great link and this interesting link and this stupendous link) … after unsuccessfully reactivating textboxes after the application of, on mobile … “disable” attribute … and/or … “readonly” attribute … but what we found better (though inert was good for about 71/2 out of 8 scenarios (and with all the mobile scenarios)) was to use, occasionally, the rather crude … if you want to discourage keyboard usage ahead of arranging the Captcha image and span … for whatever reason … go, as soon as possible … [formElement].style.visibility=’hidden’; … until … the Captcha image and span have been appended to the [formElement].innerHTML (perhaps display:block; or perhaps display:none;) and any overlaying input type=button applied … then … as required, go … [formElement].style.visibility=’visible’; … in a further changed colour_code_captcha.js external Javascript helping out colour_code_captcha.htm testing HTML with onsubmit already defined (or below) or testing HTML with no onsubmit already defined (or below). Previous relevant Colour Coded Form With Onsubmit Captcha Tutorial is shown below. We suspected there would be difficulties when, elaborating on yesterday’s Colour Coded Form Captcha Tutorial‘s start … dynamically adding Captcha Colour Code logic (via the use of external Javascript) to an HTML webpage form … which had no form onsubmit event defined … when today we tested that logic for a form with existant onsubmit event logic (and needed) … new dynamically adding Captcha Colour Code logic (via the use of external Javascript (still via the use of external Javascript … <script type=’text/javascript’ src=’//www.rjmprogramming.com.au/colour_code_captcha.js’ defer></script> ) for an HTML webpage form … which had an existant form onsubmit event defined Recreating onsubmit logic panned out to be the wrong approach, and the KISS (“keep it simple signorina”) approach much more the go. We ended up … recognising the existence of an onsubmit event show the Colour Coded Captcha image and “span” question near … Continue reading →