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JavaScript

ilovecode
ilovecode
8,071 Points
Posted by ilovecode
ilovecode
8,071 Points

Fetch won't fire on Bootstrap 4 modal

I have a contact form that when I submit a modal must pop up and show a message. Then when I click the "Close" button it must fire a fetch request to reload the page. The fetch request does work, I tested it inside the submit button and it works in there.

The modal pops up when I fire the submit button, but when I click on the close button of the modal the handleRes(url) does not work.

I don't know why, because when I insert the handleRes(url) inside the submit event listener then it works.

The modal:

<div id="myModal" class="modal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog">
        <div class="modal-dialog" role="document">
          <div class="modal-content">
            <div class="modal-header">
              <h5 class="modal-title">Modal title</h5>
              <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close">
                <span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
              </button>
            </div>
            <div class="modal-body">
              <p>Modal body text goes here.</p>
            </div>
            <div class="modal-footer">
              <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</button>
              <button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary modal-close" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>

Javascript:

const url = '/contact';
const submitForm = document.querySelector('#submit-post');
const closeModal = document.querySelector('.modal-close');

function handleRes (url) {
    fetch(url, {
        method: 'GET'
    })
    .then((response) => {
            if(response.ok) {
            return response;
        }
        throw Error(response.statusText);
    })
    .then( response => console.log(response.status) )
    .catch( error => console.log('There was an error!') );
}

function displayMessage() {
    console.log('this will be a message etc');
}

submitForm.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
    $('#myModal').on('shown.bs.modal', function () {
        displayMessage();
    })

    console.log('form submitted');
});

closeModal.addEventListener('click', () => {
    console.log('the modal closes');
    handleRes(url);
});

The form:

 <form class="post-form" action="/contact" method="post">
            <div class="form-group">
                <label for="firstName">First Name</label>
                <input type="text" name="firstName" class="form-control" id="firstName" placeholder="First Name">
            </div>
            <div class="form-group">
                <label for="lastName">Last Name</label>
                <input type="text" name="lastName" class="form-control" id="lastName" placeholder="Last Name">
            </div>
            <div class="form-group">
                <label for="email">Email</label>
                <input name="email" type="email" class="form-control" id="email" placeholder="Enter Name of Owl">
            </div>
            <div class="form-group">
                <label for="theQuery">What is your query?</label>
                <textarea name="theQuery" class="form-control" id="theQuery" rows="3"></textarea>
            </div>
            <button id="submit-post" type="submit" class="btn btn-outline-secondary mb-5 btn-do-magic" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">Send Owl</button>
        </form>