Name
Form.submit( ) — submit a formJavaScript 1.0
Availability
Synopsis
form
.submit( )
Description
The submit( )
method
submits the specified form
, almost as if a
Submit button had been pressed by
the user. The form is submitted as specified by the
action
, method
, and
encoding
properties of
form
(or the action
,
method
, and enctype
attributes
of the <form>
tag), and the results are
displayed in the window or frame specified by the
target
property or the target
attribute.
The one important difference between the submit( )
method and form submission by the user is that the onsubmit( )
event handler is not invoked when submit( )
is called. If you use onsubmit( )
to
perform input validation, for example, you’ll have to do that
validation explicitly before calling submit( )
.
Usage
It is more common to use a Submit
button that allows the user to submit the form than to call the
submit( )
method yourself.
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