Comments on: How to add a Cancel button to Drupal forms

By: lmeurs

lmeurs — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:37:11 +0000

@MadtownLems: add “‘#limit_validation_errors’ => array(),” to the cancel button to skip all validation. Ie.:

$form['cancel'] = array(
‘#type’ => ‘submit’,
‘#name’ => ‘cancel’,
‘#value’ => ‘Cancel’,
‘#limit_validation_errors’ => array(),
);

Cheers

LMeurs, Rotterdam

By: strony www

strony www — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:51:17 +0000

@rsevero

You can’t find example with disabled validation here
http://devengineering.com/best-practices/drupal/cancellation-required-validation-drupal-6

By: loony

loony — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:08:13 +0000

in D7 u need to do this
‘button’,
‘#attributes’ => array(‘onClick’ => ‘location.replace(\”. $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] .’\'); return false;’),
‘#value’ => t(‘Cancel’),
);
?>

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:38:04 +0000

Sometimes you can’t just redirect user using link. For example when you need to perform some actions on cancel. Here is an example how to really cancel Drupal “required field” validation http://devengineering.com/best-practices/drupal/cancellation-required-validation-drupal-6

By: hnd

hnd — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:56:38 +0000

it works.. thanks a lot..

By: xyz

xyz — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:01:31 +0000

super coding,it is working fine

By: sim6

sim6 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:31:53 +0000

Hi,

The next code uses javascript:

// hook_form()
function myform_form($form_state, $value) {
$form['cancel'] = array(
‘#type’ => ‘button’,
‘#attributes’ => array(‘onClick’ => ‘location.replace(“‘. referer_uri() .’”); return false;’),
‘#value’ => t(‘Cancel’),
);
}

Enjoy it!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:33:00 +0000

Thanks for this one!

IMO, a button is a much better solution than the “text link” version. Users (psychologically?) “feel safer” clicking a button to cancel.

From what I could tell, the validation function was OK because $form_state['values'] still had the original content (which was valid). While $form_state['clicked_button']['#post'] had the current (potentially invalid) data. Though I’m a newbie and may be interpreting it incorrectly.

Thanks again, it worked fine for me (Drupal 6.15).

By: MadtownLems

MadtownLems — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:23:00 +0000

This is a good start, but doesn’t this get run AFTER any validation, such as Required fields?

I tried it out on a form with a required field, and that’s what kept happening. Pushing cancel would take me back to the same page telling me the title was required. But if i entered a title, and then pushed cancel, it would work.

Thoughts?

and thanks!

By: rsevero

rsevero — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:57:05 +0000

Answering your last question: not exactly.

This solution presents a problem if you have any “required” fields and any of them is empty when the user tries to cancel. You got a “required field” error message and the cancelation fails.

Better to define the “Cancel” button as a link to the page you want to take your users on cancelation. You can do it defining a “#markup’ type element in the form:

$form['cancel'] = array(
‘#value’ => sprintf(“%s“, URL_TO_GO, t(‘Cancel’)),
);