javascript form field submit : Object doesn't support this property or method in IE8

Question

i'm getting following error in IE8

Object doesn't support this property or method 

i'm getting this error on following line

fieldName.form.action = 'some action url';

i have alerted fieldName like following

alert(typeof(fieldName));

it alerts 'Object'

anyone have any idea about this?

Answer 1

solved the problem by replacing following line

fieldName.form.action = 'some action url';

to

fieldName.form.setAttribute('action','some url');

got answer from here

Answer 2

document.getElementById('IdOfForm').action='some action URL';

Answer 3

Try this code

document.form_name.action='some url';