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pedroremedios
pedroremedios

Reputation: 801

Javascript Handlers

Can I have the following inside a form tag?

action="handler"

Is this legal? It supposedly runs a javascript function of some sort.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 74

Answers (2)

gen_Eric
gen_Eric

Reputation: 227310

The action attribute is the URL the browser will submit the form to.

<form action="submitForm.php"><input /></form>

If you want to run JavaScript, you can make handler something like this:

<form action="javascript:myFunc(this)"><input /></form>

I highly suggest you don't do this, and instead use JavaScript event handlers to capture the onsubmit event.

<form id="myForm"><input /></form>

<script>
    document.getElementById('myForm').addEventListener('submit', function(event){
        event.preventDefault(); // prevent the form the submitting.
                                // the form will only submit if
                                // it has an "action" attribute
        myFunc(this);
    });
</script>

Upvotes: 2

Lyn Headley
Lyn Headley

Reputation: 11598

Yes it is legal but wont invoke javascript. It will submit the form to the server url specified by 'handler.'

Upvotes: 2

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