247026 - Function submit() is undefined in forms. Calling submit() doesn't post the form.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247745

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Mark Hunting]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

When calling submit() in a form the form is not submitted. This warning shows in
the JavaScript console: "submit is undefined". Also this.submit() doesn't work:
"this.submit is not a function". It does work in older versions of Firefox (and
Mozilla).

Example code:

<form action="/" method="post">
<table>
	<tr>
		<td onClick="submit();">Click here</td>
	</tr>
</table>
</form>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a page containing the example code
2. Click on 'click here'
3. 

Actual Results:  
Form is not submitted

Expected Results:  
Form should be submitted

Tested on two computers, both with Win 2000. Many sites use the submit()
function, so this should really be fixed soon.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: Reporter's testcase.

I would think this is INVALID, but this indeed worked in Mozilla1.6 (for some
kind of IE compatibility reason?).

This doesn't work in Opera7.23 by the way, so you could better use the dom:
document.forms[0].submit() or something like that.

Comment 2

[Mark Hunting]

> so you could better use the dom:
> document.forms[0].submit() or something like that.

Sometimes, when you have more than one form on a dynamically generated page, you
don't know in what form you are (forms[0],[1],[2] or whatever). Of course you
can build a script to print the right forms[n], but not every webmaster will do
that. 

Comment 3

[Mark Hunting]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This doesn't work in Opera7.23 by the way, so you could better use the dom:
> document.forms[0].submit() or something like that.

It does work in Opera 7.51 Final (for Linux). I don't know if 'submit()' is 100%
valid JavaScript, but I think 'this.submit()' is. Does that work in Opera 7.23?

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247745 ***