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Chris
Chris

Reputation: 2646

Post form without a button

I was exploring the search box on the Apple website and noticed it doesn't have a input type="submit" to post the form, even when Javascript is disabled.

<form action="/search/" method="post" class="search" id="g-search">
    <div class="sp-label">
        <label for="sp-searchtext">Search</label>
        <input type="text" name="q" id="sp-searchtext" accesskey="s">
     </div>
 </form>

Having never really explored it, I take it from this it means you can post a form without needing a submit button, it just relies on the user pressing the return key.

Two questions: 1) Is this compatible across all browsers? So in IE 7 will pressing return still work?; 2) Is there a way to do this in ASP.NET without using an asp:button? I will probably have it inside a placeholder (where I would conventionally use defaultButton to allow for multiple forms on the page) but if I can get rid of the button altogether then that's a plus.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2832

Answers (1)

MaVRoSCy
MaVRoSCy

Reputation: 17859

yes of course it is possible to do it in anyway you want.

The simpler thing is to have an onclick event that calls a function that does the submit like this:

JQuery:

$('#id_of_form').submit()

javascript:

document.name_of_my_form.submit();

or

document.getElementById('id_of_my_form').submit();

so simple :)

Upvotes: 3

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