How can I use an anchor tag to submit a form with jquery

Question

I want to use the following anchor to submit a form with jquery to Spring. How is this done?

<a target="" title="" class="" href="">Save</a>

I've tried this, where requestNew is my form:

 $(document).ready(function(){
  $("a").click(function(){
     $("#requestNew").submit(function(){
         $.post("../acctRequests", $("#requestNew").serialize());
      });
  });
 });

It doesn't seem to go anywhere.

Answer 1

You are adding a new event handler; all you need to do is trigger the existing ones, and the browser's native functionality:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("a").click(function(){
     $("#requestNew").submit();
  });
});

Answer 2

Please use this

<a href="javascript:document.YOUR_FORM_NAME.submit()"> Submit</a>

<form name="YOUR_FORM_NAME" action="YOUR_ACTION_PAGE_URL" method=POST>
           <input type="text" name="YOUR_INPUT_NAME" value="YOUR_INPUT_VALUE"/>
      </form>

Replace "YOUR_ACTION_PAGE_URL" with your targeted action url