I was working on a MERN blog website project. In the Write post section there are two input fields. One is for Title & another is for description. When I try to write a post the title can be written fully but when I try to write the description the form getting submitted automatically after typing just one letter.
If I try to write the description first it also taking several word but this time the title is taking one letter and submitting the form automatically as sson as I try to type the second letter.
I'm attaching my code here! Can you please help me to solve this issue?
import { useContext, useState } from "react"
import "./write.css";
import {Context} from "../../context/Context";
import axios from "axios";
export default function Write() {
const [title, setTitle] = useState("");
const [desc, setDesc] = useState("");
const [file, setFile] = useState(null);
const { user } = useContext(Context);
const handleSubmit = async (e) => {
e.preventDefault();
const newPost = {
username: user.username,
title,
desc,
};
if (file) {
const data = new FormData();
const filename = Date.now() + file.name;
data.append("name", filename);
data.append("file", file);
newPost.photo = filename;
try {
await axios.post("/upload", data);
} catch (err) {}
}
try {
const res = await axios.post("/posts", newPost);
window.location.replace("/post/" + res.data._id);
} catch (err) {
}
};
return (
<div className="write">
{file &&
<img src={URL.createObjectURL(file)} alt="" className="writeImg" />
}
<form className="writeForm" onChange={handleSubmit}>
<div className="writeFormGroup">
<label htmlFor="fileInput">
<i class="writeIcon fa-solid fa-plus"></i>
</label>
<input type="file" id="fileInput" style={{display:"none"}} onChange={(e)=> setFile(e.target.files[0])} />
<input type="text" placeholder="Title" className="writeInput" autoFocus={true} onChange={e=> setTitle(e.target.value)} />
</div>
<div className="writeFormGroup">
<textarea placeholder="Tell your story..." type="text" className="writeInput writeText" onChange={e=> setDesc(e.target.value)}></textarea>
</div>
<button className="writeSubmit" type="submit">Publish</button>
</form>
</div>
)
}
In your form, you should change this: <form className="writeForm" onChange={handleSubmit}>
to this: <form className="writeForm" onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
.
Changing onChange to onSubmit should solve the issue