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[mohammadi]

Hello,
I have a form with a link with out any button, and I`m going to submit this form by clicking this link and it is like this:
<a onclick="java-script: document.myform.submit();"></a>
It works sometimes but most of the time It doesn`t work and there is an error on page.
How can I solve this problem?
thanks.

[Doh004]

Originally Posted by mohammadi

Hello,
I have a form with a link with out any button, and I`m going to submit this form by clicking this link and it is like this:
<a onclick="java-script: document.myform.submit();"></a>
It works sometimes but most of the time It doesn`t work and there is an error on page.
How can I solve this problem?
thanks.

I think you should remove the - in your 'java-script'. I'm pretty sure it's just 'javascript'

[ThatScriptGuy]

You also don't need the javascript: bit either.

<a href="javascript:" onclick="document.myform.submit();"></a>

However, you really should avoid using javascript for something as important as submitting a form (Or at least provide a solution for those without JS enabled)

[Crandion]

For a very basic form it would be best to use pure HTML like it was suggested.

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

[ubservers]

Originally Posted by ThatScriptGuy

You also don't need the javascript: bit either.

<a href="javascript:" onclick="document.myform.submit();"></a>

However, you really should avoid using javascript for something as important as submitting a form (Or at least provide a solution for those without JS enabled)

I agree here.
What you can do is set your form action to go to your javascript to client check before sending, then php check just to make sure and then process your form.