Bypass HTML “required” attribute when submitting [duplicate]

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No JavaScript, no second form needed, and the validation can stay:

For exactly this use case the HTML5 spec has designed the formnovalidate attribute for submit elements (like <input type=submit>), as one of the attributes for form submission:

The formnovalidate attribute can be used to make submit buttons that do not trigger the constraint validation.

So simply put

<form action="myform.php">
  Foo: <input type="text" name="someField" required>
  <input type="submit" value="submit">
  <input type="submit" value="ignore" formnovalidate>
</form>

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