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Potheek
Potheek

Reputation: 1021

Submit form using <a> tag

I am trying to submit a form through onclick event on tag. I have tried triggering document.myform.submit(), this.form.submit(), parentNode.submit() etc. but none of this is working! Using a submit button, the code works fine. But I want to use tag in place of that. Need some help.

            <form id="myform" name="myform" method="POST" action="process_edit_questionnaire.php?project=<?php echo $project_id; ?>">
                <input name="module" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $module_id;?>"/>
                <input name="project" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $project_id;?>"/>
                <input name="hidden_ques_id" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $data_array_ques[$j]['ques_id'];?>"/>

            <div id="question_block">

                <div id="serial_block">
                    <p id="s_original_<?php echo $j+1; ?>"><a href="#" onclick="showSelectBox(<?php echo $j+1; ?>)">Serial : 
                        <?php 
                        if($data_array_ques[$j]['ques_position']==NULL){ 
                            echo $j+1;                            
                        } 
                        else { 
                            echo $data_array_ques[$j]['ques_position'];         
                        } ?></a></p>
                    <p id="s_select_box_<?php echo $j+1; ?>" style="display: none;">Serial : 
                        <select name="serial">
                          <?php for($p=1;$p<=count($data_array_ques);$p++){ ?>
                                    <option value="<?php echo $p; ?>" <?php if($p==$data_array_ques[$j]['ques_position']){ echo "selected=\"selected\"";} ?> ><?php echo $p; ?></option>
                          <?php }  ?>
                        </select>
                    </p>
                </div>

                <div id="question_text">
                    <a href="#" onclick="showTextBox(<?php echo $j+1; ?>)"><p id="q_original_<?php echo $j+1; ?>"><?php echo $data_array_ques[$j]['ques_text']; ?></p></a>
                    <p id="q_text_box_<?php echo $j+1; ?>" style="display:none;"><textarea id="ques_text" name="ques_text" rows="3" cols="30"><?php echo $data_array_ques[$j]['ques_text']; ?></textarea></p>                     
                </div>

            </div>

            <div id="menu_block">
                <a href="" onclick="document.myform.submit()">Save Changes</a> |
                <a href="delete_question.php?project=<?php echo $project_id; ?>&module=<?php echo $module_id; ?>">Delete This Question</a>
            </div>
            </form>

Upvotes: 56

Views: 149556

Answers (10)

krystan honour
krystan honour

Reputation: 6793

you can do it like this with raw javascript

<html>
    <body>
        <form id="my_form" method="post" action="mailto://[email protected]">
            <a href="javascript:{}" onclick="document.getElementById('my_form').submit();">submit</a>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

For those asking why I have a href element in my anchor tag, its because it's a compulsory part of an anchor tag, it may well work without but it's not to spec. So if you want to guarantee rendering etc you must give the engine a fully formed tag. So the above achieves this. You will see href="#" used sometimes but this is not always wanted as the browser will change the page position.

Upvotes: 79

fbarikzehy
fbarikzehy

Reputation: 5405

Clean and simple:

  <form action="/myaction" method="post" target="_blank">
    <!-- other elements -->
    <a href="#" onclick="this.parentNode.submit();">Submit</a>
 </form>

In case of opening form action url in a new tab (target="_blank"):

  <form action="/myaction" method="post" target="_blank">
    <!-- other elements -->
    <a href="#" onclick="this.parentNode.submit();">Submit</a>
 </form>

Upvotes: 4

Ameni
Ameni

Reputation: 41

<form  id="myform_id" action="/myMethode"  role="form"  method="post" > 
   <a  href="javascript:$('#myform_id').submit();" >submit</a>
</form>

Upvotes: 4

James
James

Reputation: 135

Using Jquery you can do something like this:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#btnSubmit').click(function() {
    $('#deleteFrm').submit();
  });

});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form action="" id="deleteFrm" method="POST">
  <a id="btnSubmit">Submit</a>
</form>

Upvotes: 2

Ala Aga
Ala Aga

Reputation: 397

You can use hidden submit button and click it using java script/jquery like this: 

  <form id="contactForm" method="post" class="contact-form">

        <button type="submit" id="submitBtn" style="display:none;" data-validate="contact-form">Hidden Button</button>
        <a href="javascript:;" class="myClass" onclick="$('#submitBtn').click();">Submit</a>

  </form>

Upvotes: 1

CF5
CF5

Reputation: 1173

Is there any reason for not using a submit button and then styling it with css to match your other a tags?

I think this would reduce your dependency on having javascript enabled and still get the desired result.

Upvotes: 2

Hemant Nagpal
Hemant Nagpal

Reputation: 624

If jquery is allowed then you can use following code to implement it in the easiest way as : 

<a href="javascript:$('#form_id').submit();">Login</a>

or

<a href="javascript:$('form').submit()">Login</a>

You can use following line in your head tag () to import jquery into your code 

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js"></script>

Upvotes: 15

Rafael Kutscha
Rafael Kutscha

Reputation: 17

I suggest to use "return false" instead of useing some javascript in the href-tag:

<form id="">
...
</form>

<a href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('myform').submit(); return false;">send form</a>

Upvotes: 1

Jignesh Rajput
Jignesh Rajput

Reputation: 3558

Try this:

Suppose HTML like this :

   <form id="myform" name="myform" method="POST" action="process_edit_questionnaire.php?project=<?php echo $project_id; ?>">
      <div id="question_block">
            testing form
        </div>
     <a href="javascript: submit();">Submit</a>
        </form>

JS :

   <script type='text/javascript'>
     function submit()
      {
         document.forms["myform"].submit();
      }
   </script>

you can check it out here : http://jsfiddle.net/Zm426/7/

Upvotes: 4

Pranay Rana
Pranay Rana

Reputation: 176896

Submit your form like this ...

Your HTML code 

    <form name="myform" action="handle-data.php"> Search: <input type='text' name='query' />
     <a href="javascript: submitform()">Search</a> 
   </form>

JavaScript Code

  <script type="text/javascript"> 
        function submitform() {   document.myform.submit(); } 
   </script>

Upvotes: 6

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