Weird behaiviour onsubmit react-bootstrap form

Question

I am using react-bootstrap but I am noticing some weird behavior on form submit.

I have a sign-in file which is a form in a modal

        <Modal>  
        ...
          <Form
            className="d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center flex-column"
            onSubmit={onSubmitSignIn}
          >
            <Form.Group controlId="formBasicEmail">
              <Form.Control
                type="email"
                placeholder="Enter email"
                className={`signInputStyle ${
                  invalidEmail ? "invalidFieldStyle" : ""
                }`}
                value={email}
                onChange={handleEmailValidation}
                required
              />
              <div>
                <small className="errorFormText">
                  {invalidEmail ? "must be a valid email" : ""}
                </small>
              </div>
            </Form.Group>
           ...
            <div className="signupAcc">
              Do not have an account?
              <span onClick={() => setModalShow(true)}>SignUp</span>
              <SignUp show={modalShow} onHide={() => setModalShow(false)} />
           </div>
         ...
       </Form>
      </Modal>        

In the sign-in component when you click on the SignUp span, it displays the second modal(which is for sign-up, therefore I have two modals now).

The sign-up modal has a form that is similar to that of the sign-in and they both have onSubmit function.

      <Modal>  
        ...
         <Form
            className="d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center flex-column"
            onSubmit={onSubmitValue}
          >
            <Form.Group controlId="formGridFirstName1">
              <Form.Control
                placeholder="First Name"
                required
                name="firstname"
                className={`signInputStyle ${
                  invalidateField.firstname ? "invalidFieldStyle" : ""
                }`}
                onChange={handleUserInput}
              />
              <div>
                <small className="errorFormText">
                  {invalidateField.firstname
                    ? "must be at least three letters"
                    : ""}
                </small>
              </div>
            </Form.Group>
         ...
       </Form>
      </Modal>        

I noticed when I clicked on the button(type='submit') for the sign-up file it also triggers the onSubmit for the sign-in. My question is why is this behavior? Is it because both form fields are in the dom already? or something else? I really want to know the reason behind this behavior and how to resolve it. Thank you.

Answer 1

It is just native HTML button behaviour. As stated on the documentation , the button element contains the type attribute accepts 3 values: submit , reset , and button . If the type attribute is supplied with the submit value, it will

Submit the current form data.

Deep inside the hood of, React-bootstrap's Form Components, it probably makes use of the HTML Form Element, hence clicking on the button triggers the same mechanism for Form.submit() .

If you do not want this behaviour, you may simply remove the type attribute ,or set the type attribute aas button ( type="button" ).

Answer 2

Make one of the buttons as type="button" and add an onClick action. the other one should work this way.