Here is something that I find disturbing. I created a small form, and I'm using AJAX to validate for me. I have a javascript function authenticate() that works sometimes.

<form method="post" action="" id="login_form" onsubmit="authenticate()";>

// various inputs

<input type="button" onclick="authenticate()" value="Log In">

</form>

authenticate() works just fine when I click the button. However, if I press enter the form is submitted, and it fails. It also fails if I call onSubmit(). In my debugging, I alert the outgoing texts-- they are identical. However, the Prototype Ajax function calls it the onSuccess, but there is just no response from the server. (The server outputs either "Success" or "Failure").

Why the different behaviors for onClick() vs onSubmit()? The exact same function is called, but the results are different.

Any help would be appreciated.

--Dave