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I am looking for the neatest way to create an HTML form which does not have a submit button. That itself is easy enough, but I also need to stop the form from reloading itself when submission-like things are done (for example, hitting Enter in a text field).
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Use jQuery's submit event to handle the form submit, add return false; at the end of the submit handle function to prevent the page to reload. return false ; });
If action is set to "" or if the action attribute is missing, the form submits to itself. That is, if your script is index.
Yes, the form is required to have an action attribute in HTML4. If it's not set, the browser will likely use the same method as providing an empty string to it. You really should set action="" which is perfectly valid HTML4, follows standards, and achieves the same exact result.
You'll want to include action="javascript:void(0);" to your form to prevent page reloads and maintain HTML standard.
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Add an onsubmit handler to the form (either via plain js or jquery $().submit(fn)), and return false unless your specific conditions are met.
Unless you don't want the form to submit, ever - in which case, why not just leave out the 'action' attribute on the form element?
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