HTML DOM Form submit() method


The HTML DOM Form submit() method is used for submitting the form data to the address specified by the action attribute. It acts as a submit button to submit form data and it doesn’t take any kind of parameters.

Syntax

Following is the syntax for Form submit() method −

formObject.submit()

Example

Let us look at an example for the Form submit() method −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
   form{
      border:2px solid blue;
      margin:2px;
      padding:4px;
   }
</style>
<script>
   function ResetForm() {
      document.getElementById("FORM1").reset();
      document.getElementById("Sample").innerHTML="Form has been reset";
   }
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Form reset() method example</h1>
<form id="FORM1" method="post" action="/sample_page.php">
<label>User Name <input type="text" name="usrN"></label> <br><br>
<label>Age <input type="text" name="Age"><label> <br><br>
<input type="submit" value="SUBMIT">
<input type="button" onclick="ResetForm()" value="RESET">
</form>
<p id="Sample"></p>
</body>
</html>

Output

This will produce the following output −

On clicking the SUBMIT button the form will be submitted and the “sample_page.php” will display this −

In the above example −

We have first created a form with id=”FORM1”, method=”post” and action=”/sample_page.php”. It contains two input fields with type text and a button named SUBMIT −

<form id="FORM1" method="post" action="/sample_page.php">
<label>User Name <input type="text" name="usrN"></label> <br><br>
<label>Age <input type="text" name="Age"><label> <br><br>
<input type="submit" value="SUBMIT">
<input type="button" onclick="ResetForm()" value="RESET">
</form>

The SUBMIT button executes the SubmitForm() method on being clicked by the user −

<input type="button" onclick="SubmitForm()" value="SUBMIT">

The ResetForm() method gets the <form> element using the document object getElementById() method and calls the submit() method on it. This submits the form data to the address specified by the action attribute −

function SubmitForm() {
   document.getElementById("FORM1").submit();
}

Updated on: 20-Nov-2023

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