onclick event to submit a form

[aforstie]

I have case where I want to submit a form from a link. I thought I could use the onclick event as seen below to submit the form since it will be within the form.

<a href="

http://www.google.com"

onclick="event.cancelBubble=true;this.form.submit();">

Using FireFox JavaScript console I get an error that reads:t
his.form has no properties

Any ideas what I need to do to get this to work? Thanks in advance!

 

[rhnewfie]

Maybe something like this?

<a href="

http://www.google.com"

onclick='javascript: DoSubmit()'>

Function DoSubmit()
{
event.cancelBubble=true;
document.formname.submit();
}

 

[cLFlaVA]

aforstie,

i suggest this method:

<a href="#" onclick="document.forms['FormName'].submit(); return false;">Submit!</a>

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[rhnewfie]

Yeah, that's a better way :-D

 

[aforstie]

This works for the most part, but I have two more questions.

[1] If I am trying to submit a form when I am not within the form, but it is on the page, how would I do that?

[2] Why would you use return false in place on event.cancelBubble=true?

thanks!

 

[cLFlaVA]

1) the same exact way i showed you.
2) why would i? because i never use cancelbubble.



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