[Javascript] Generic submit

[Ian Skinner]

Yup...something like this:  onclick("this.parentElement.submit());" you will need as many parenElement segments as there are nodes between the anchor tag and the form tag.

OR maybe better: onclick("document.getElementById("formID").submit());"


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Ian Skinner
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BloodSource
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Sacramento, CA

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...-----Original Message-----
...From: Alan Gardner [mailto:gardner.alan at gmail.com]
...Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 3:28 PM
...To: [JavaScript List]
...Subject: Re: [Javascript] Generic submit
...
...Nothing special, or what I'd consider out of typical xhtml usage, but
...here it is.
...
...Ideally, I'd like to get away with something like this:
...<a href="#" onClick="this.form.submit()" class="button">Submit</a>
...
...I think the issue with this is that the <a> is not a DOM child of
...<form>, so any usage of the "this" keyword wouldn't return the form
...object when used in the <a> tag.
...
...So, unless prove wrong, I'm thinking that the only way to generically
...submit using an anchor tag is to somehow traverse up the node tree
...until I find the <form> and get its name value.
...
...
...
...
...On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:55:55 -0500, Shawn Milo <ShawnMilo at runbox.com>
...wrote:
...> Please send your form declaration, and any other parts
...> you think are relevant.
...>
...> Shawn
...>
...> 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?
...> >
...> >
...> >On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:58:51 -0500 (EST), Shawn Milo
...> ><ShawnMilo at runbox.com> wrote:
...> >
...> >
...> >>Something like document.forms[0].submit(); should work, but,
...> >>of course, it would only submit the first form.
...> >>
...> >>Also, maybe -- wait!
...> >>
...> >>Try this:
...> >>document.forms[this.form.id].submit();
...> >>
...> >>If your XHTML is good, and you have ids for all of
...> >>your forms, I think that this should work.
...> >>
...> >>Shawn.
...> >>
...> >>
...> >>
...> >>>Hi all,
...> >>>If I want to use an anchor link to submit a form, but may not know
...the
...> >>>name of the form, or how many forms are on the page, how would I
...best
...> >>>do that?  I initially thought a simple <a href="#"
...> >>>onclick="this.form.submit()"> would work, but it  appears only to
...work
...> >>>on an input tag.  Any suggestions on how to create a generic submit
...> >>>link that I can throw into any page without additional scripting?
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