Sometimes, we want to make a submit out of a link with JavaScript.
In this article, we’ll look at how to make a submit out of a link with JavaScript.
How to make a submit out of a link with JavaScript?
To make a submit out of a link with JavaScript, we call submit on the form when we click on the link.
For instance, we write
<a href="#" onclick="document.forms['myFormName'].submit(); return false;">
...
</a>
to set onclick to the JavaScript code we run to submit the form to submit the form on click.
We use document.forms['myFormName'] to get the form with name or ID myFormName.
And we call submit to submit the form.
Then we return false to stop the default behavior of links.
Conclusion
To make a submit out of a link with JavaScript, we call submit on the form when we click on the link.
