[Javascript] Generic submit

[Hassan Schroeder]

Alan Gardner wrote:
> I thought it looked good, but my javascript console says "Error:
> this.form has no properties". I've checked and the link is inside the
> form tag. Suggestions?

This (pun semi-intended) won't work -- the "this" refers to the
anchor tag that contains the onclick.

>> <a href="#" onclick="document.forms[this.form.id].submit();">

The only way I can imagine to genericize this so you don't need to
know the form's id or position in the forms array is to invoke a
function that walks back up the XML tree to find the parent element
that's a FORM, e.g. ( el.nodeType == 1 &&  el.nodeName == "FORM" ).

HTH!
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