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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition
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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition

by David Flanagan
November 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
936 pages
68h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Form.submit( ) — submit a formJavaScript 1.0

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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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