Form Action

**L30N** · Apr 9, 2005, 09:06

Hi woundering if anyone can give me a hand. I have a form with 2 submit buttons and want different actions based on what button is clicked. I set an action on the form which was used when the first button was click but had onClick="setAction()" to call the following JS function to set the form action when the second was pressed:

Code:

function setAction(){
document.formName.action='alternate action';
document.formName.submit();
}

This code works fine in Firefox but unfortunately it didn't in IE. Does anyone know any work around for this?

**HardCoded** · Apr 9, 2005, 09:43

Think maybe you just need to return false.

Code:

function setAction(){
document.formName.action='alternate action';
document.formName.submit();
return false;
}

**L30N** · Apr 9, 2005, 10:14

Thanks anyway but didn't work

**HardCoded** · Apr 9, 2005, 11:15

Works for me:

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function setAction(){
document.formName.action='http://www.yahoo.com/';
document.formName.submit();
return false;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="formName" action="http://www.google.com" method="get">
<input type="submit" value="Google" />
<input type="submit" value="Yahoo" onclick="setAction();" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

**L30N** · Apr 9, 2005, 12:33

Thanks I got it. There was a hidden form fields called action to and seems to be causing IE probs

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