Dave Rowe's Blog » forms http://blog.roweware.com Ramblings about things I think I know... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:45:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 jQuery .submit() won’t fire! http://blog.roweware.com/2010/03/01/jquery-submit-wont-fire/ http://blog.roweware.com/2010/03/01/jquery-submit-wont-fire/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:51:24 +0000 Dave Rowe http://blog.roweware.com/2010/03/01/jquery-submit-wont-fire/ FYI – If you’re using jQuery in your application, and you’re trying to submit a form programmatically (ie, $(‘#myform’).submit(); ), you’ll want to make sure you don’t have a button with an ID/Name of ‘submit’ – the code fails silently, with no indication of why. This is something that caught me today, and was somewhat frustrating since it was such a basic concept of getting a form to fire.

Reference: http://api.jquery.com/submit/#comment-30950448 – Thanks Scotty!

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