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So can someone please tell why neither of these options will actually submit the form? I am trying to do something more complicated but I have boiled it down to this to try and figure out why I can't seem to get this form to submit using a click event and submit()
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('#submitButton').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$("#testForm").submit();
});
$('#submitLink').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$("#testForm").submit();
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="javascript:alert('submitted');" method="post" id="testForm">
<label>Name</label>
<input type="text" name="name" value="" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" id="submitButton" />
<p><a href="#" id="submitLink">Submit Form</a></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Thank you!
632
In javascript onclick event , you can use form. submit() method to submit form. You can perform submit action by, submit button, by clicking on hyperlink, button and image tag etc. You can also perform javascript form submission by form attributes like id, name, class, tag name as well.
Forms can be submitted either by clicking an explicit <input type="submit"> , <input type="image"> , or <button type="submit"> , or by pressing Enter when certain form elements have focus.
The submit event fires when the user clicks a submit button ( <button> or <input type="submit">) or presses Enter while editing a field (e.g. <input type="text">) in a form. The event is not sent to the form when calling the form. submit() method directly.
jQuery submit() MethodThe submit event occurs when a form is submitted. This event can only be used on <form> elements. The submit() method triggers the submit event, or attaches a function to run when a submit event occurs.
it's because the name of the submit button is named "submit", change it to anything but "submit", try "submitme" and retry it. It should then work.
148
Why not simply use the submit button to run the code you want. If your function returns false, it will cancel the submission.
$("#testForm").submit(function() {
/* Do Something */
return false;
});
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