form-submit

Submit form without reloading page [duplicate]

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You can’t do this using forms the normal way. Instead, you want to use AJAX. A sample function that will submit the data and alert the page response. function submitForm() { var http = new XMLHttpRequest(); http.open(“POST”, “<<whereverTheFormIsGoing>>”, true); http.setRequestHeader(“Content-type”,”application/x-www-form-urlencoded”); var params = “search=” + <<get search value>>; // probably use document.getElementById(…).value http.send(params); http.onload = … Read more

jQuery: form not submitting with $(“#id”).submit(), but will submit with a ‘submit’ button?

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Change button’s “submit” name to something else. That causes the problem. See dennisjq’s answer at: http://forum.jquery.com/topic/submiting-a-form-programmatically-not-working See the jQuery submit() documentation: Forms and their child elements should not use input names or ids that conflict with properties of a form, such as submit, length, or method. Name conflicts can cause confusing failures. For a complete … Read more

Serializing and submitting a form with jQuery and PHP

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You can use this function var datastring = $(“#contactForm”).serialize(); $.ajax({ type: “POST”, url: “your url.php”, data: datastring, dataType: “json”, success: function(data) { //var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(data); if the dataType is not specified as json uncomment this // do what ever you want with the server response }, error: function() { alert(‘error handling here’); } }); … Read more

How do I use an image as a submit button?

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Use an image type input: <input type=”image” src=”https://stackoverflow.com/Button1.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”Submit” /> The full HTML: <form id=’formName’ name=”formName” onsubmit=”redirect();return false;”> <div class=”style7″> <input type=”text” id=’userInput’ name=”userInput” value=””> <input type=”image” name=”submit” src=”https://jekyllcodex.org/uploads/grumpycat.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”Submit” style=”width: 50px;” /> </div> </form>

Submit POST data from controller to another website in Rails

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The simpliest way is using ruby core library: require “uri” require “net/http” params = {‘box1’ => ‘Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. -Emily Post’, ‘button1’ => ‘Submit’ } x = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse(‘http://www.interlacken.com/webdbdev/ch05/formpost.asp’), params) puts x.body Pro Tip: Do … Read more

HTML5: How to make a form submit, after pressing ENTER at any of the text inputs?

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Try adding this between the <form></form> tags <input type=”submit” style=”display: none” /> Tested it and it works on Firefox and Chrome. If you have a submit input type in the form, enter should automatically submit it, regardless of whether it’s visible or not. I am actually using this myself in a login form, though in … Read more

Default action to execute when pressing enter in a form

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This is not specific to JSF. This is specific to HTML. The HTML5 forms specification section 4.10.22.2 basically specifies that the first occuring <input type=”submit”> element in the “tree order” in same <form> as the current input element in the HTML DOM tree will be invoked on enter press. There are basically two workarounds: Use … Read more

jQuery serializeArray doesn’t include the submit button that was clicked

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Is [there] another method that DOESN’T exclude the activated button in a serialization? There is not, the behavior is based on the submit event of the <form>, not of a button, e.g. hitting enter or calling .submit() in JavaScript. You’re mixing 2 concepts here, a .serialize() or .serializeArray() may or may not have anything to … Read more