September 17, 2005

Submitting a form using Javascript

PHP & Web Development — Sarah King

It's sometimes necessary to submit a form using javascript rather than by using the normal serverside validation (or as well as). This is a handy example of how to do it...

HTML:
  1. <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
  2. <title>Submit Form example from www.itamer.com/submit-form-using-javascript/192/</title>
  3. <script>function submitMe()
  4. {
  5. alert('In submitMe()');
  6. document.submitForm.submit();
  7. return;
  8. }
  9. </script>
  10. </meta>
  11. </head>
  12. <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
  13. <form name="submitForm" action="selfsubmit.html" method="post">
  14.     <input type="hidden" value="page" name="whatever"/>
  15.     <a href="javascript:document.submitForm.submit()">submit direct</a><br />
  16.     <a href="javascript:submitMe()">submit via a function</a><br />
  17.     <input type="image" src="https://scgi.ebay.com/saw/pics/sitewide/processBar1_16x16.gif"/>
  18. </form>
  19. </body>
  20. </html>

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