Should jQuery's $(form).submit(); not trigger onSubmit within the form tag?

Darryl_Hein_5441 0
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I have the following:

<script type="text/javascript">
function CancelFormButton(button) {
    $(button.form).submit();
}
</script>

<form onsubmit="alert('here');">
<input type="button" value="Cancel" onClick="CancelFormButton(this);" />
</form>

When I click the "Cancel" button, the onsubmit from the form tag is not triggered.

This line instead submits the form successfully: $(button.form).submit(); but skips the alert('here'); within the onsubmit in the form tag.

Is this correct or am I doing something wrong?

By the way, in this case, I want this functionality, but I'm just wondering if I'm going to run into a problem in a browser where the onsubmit is triggered.

onsubmit jquery
9 Answers

Sorry, misunderstood your question.

According to Javascript - capturing onsubmit when calling form.submit():

I was recently asked: "Why doesn't the form.onsubmit event get fired when I submit my form using javascript?"

The answer: Current browsers do not adhere to this part of the html specification. The event only fires when it is activated by a user - and does not fire when activated by code.

(emphasis added).

Note: "activated by a user" also includes hitting submit buttons (probably including default submit behaviour from the enter key but I haven't tried this). Nor, I believe, does it get triggered if you (with code) click a submit button.

cletus_183930

Try to trigger() event in your function:

$("form").trigger('submit'); // and then... do submit()
sergei_273090

I found this question serval years ago.

recently I tried to "rewrite" the submit method. below is my code

window.onload= function (){
for(var i= 0;i<document.forms.length;i++){
    (function (p){
        var form= document.forms[i];
        var originFn= form.submit;
        form.submit=function (){
            //do something you like
            alert("submitting "+form.id+" using submit method !");
            originFn();
        }
        form.onsubmit= function (){
            alert("submitting "+form.id+" with onsubmit event !");
        }
    })(i);


}

}

<form method="get" action="" id="form1">
<input type="submit" value="提交form1" />
<input type="button" name="" id="" value="button模拟提交1" onclick="document.forms[0].submit();" /></form>

It did in IE,but failed in other browsers for the same reason as "cletus"

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