Use javascript to submit from but in php loop

[levani]

I want to submit form using javascript but as I see javascript doesn't work in php loop. I use this code:

<form name="theForm">
<input type=text name="formInput">
<a href="javascript:document.theForm.submit();">Submit</a>
</form>

and it works fine in ordinary page, but stops working in php loop! I need to use link, not button to submit form.

Can anyone please help?

Thanks in advance

[ckeyrouz]

What do you mean by

in PHP loop

?

[angst]

if the form is in a loop, ie: so you have several forms,
just add the record id to the form name, like: theForm_1 and the same for the javascript reference to the form.

<form name="theForm_1">
<input type=text name="formInput">
<a href="javascript:document.theForm_1.submit();">Submit</a>
</form>

[ckeyrouz]

try putting this instead:

<a href="#" onclick="document.theForm.submit();">Submit</a>

[levani]

What do you mean by

The whole code is rather complicated to post, it's a wordpress comment loop. I want to add above code after every comment.

<a href="#" onclick="document.theForm.submit();">Submit</a>

This code doesn't work. It displays the submit button but when I click it nothing happens.

[12 Pack Mack]

Try:

<a href="#" onclick="document.forms[0].submit()">Submit</a>

or:

<a href="#" onclick="document.forms['formName'].submit()">Submit</a>

It is very poor practice, though, to use JavaScript within an HTML element.

Either way, they are both, to use a technical term, crap.

[ckeyrouz]

Originally Posted by 12 Pack Mack

Try:

<a href="#" onclick="document.forms[0].submit()">Submit</a>

It is very poor practice, though, to use JavaScript within an HTML element.

This way the link will always load the first form of the document.

In fact there is a list of forms in the document and in each form there is a link and he needs the link to submit the form in which it exists.