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How to do something before on submit?

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How do you call a function before submitting a form?

Here we are calling a validate() function before submitting a form data to the webserver. If validate() function returns true, the form will be submitted, otherwise it will not submit the data. The HTML code snippet.

Does Onclick fire before submit?

1 Answer. Show activity on this post. When using a click() event on the button, yes it is.

What happens when you click submit?

Most HTML forms have a submit button at the bottom of the form. Once all of the fields in the form have been filled in, the user clicks on the submit button to record the form data. The standard behaviour is to gather all of the data that were entered into the form and send it to another program to be processed.

How do I make my submit button work?

Submit button automatically submits a form on click. Using HTML forms, you can easily take user input. The <form> tag is used to get user input, by adding the form elements. Different types of form elements include text input, radio button input, submit button, etc.


If you have a form as such:

<form id="myform">
...
</form>

You can use the following jQuery code to do something before the form is submitted:

$('#myform').submit(function() {
    // DO STUFF...
    return true; // return false to cancel form action
});

Assuming you have a form like this:

<form id="myForm" action="foo.php" method="post">
   <input type="text" value="" />
   <input type="submit" value="submit form" />

</form>

You can attach a onsubmit-event with jQuery like this:

$('#myForm').submit(function() {
  alert('Handler for .submit() called.');
  return false;
});

If you return false the form won't be submitted after the function, if you return true or nothing it will submit as usual.

See the jQuery documentation for more info.


You can use onclick to run some JavaScript or jQuery code before submitting the form like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
    beforeSubmit = function(){
        if (1 == 1){
            //your before submit logic
        }        
        $("#formid").submit();            
    }
</script>
<input type="button" value="Click" onclick="beforeSubmit();" />

make sure the submit button is not of type "submit", make it a button. Then use the onclick event to trigger some javascript. There you can do whatever you want before you actually post your data.