This is what I am trying to do without success :
<form name="something" action="ht.php" method="post">
<a href="#" onclick="document.url.submit('helloworld');">Submit</a>
</form>
When I click on the link I want to post the value helloworld to ht.php. How can I do this?
You can't just do document.url.submit(), it doesn't work like that.
Try this:
<form id="myForm" action="ht.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="someName" value="helloworld" />
<a href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('myForm').submit();">Submit</a>
</form>
That should work!
Using jQuery, its rather easy:
$('form .submit-link').on({
click: function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
$(this).closest('form').submit();
}
});
Then you just code as normal, assigning the class submit-link to the form submission links:
<form action="script.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="textField" />
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenField" value="foo" />
<a href="#" class="submit-link">Submit</a>
</form>
I find this method useful, if you want to maintain an aesthetic theme across the site using links rather than traditional buttons, since there's no inline scripting.
Here's a JSFiddle, although it doesn't submit anywhere.
try
<form id="frmMain" action="ht.php" method="post">
<a href="#" onclick="document.forms['frmMain'].submit();">Submit</a>
</form>
Try this,
<!-- you need to give some name to hidden value [index for post value] -->
<form name="something" action="ht.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="somename" value="helloworld" />
<a href="javascript: document.something.submit();">Submit</a>
</form>
Also try this
<!-- you need to give some name to hidden value [index for post value] -->
<!-- also you can use id to select the form -->
<form name="something" action="ht.php" method="post" id="myform">
<input type="hidden" name="somename" value="helloworld" />
<a href="javascript: document.getElementById('myform').submit();">Submit</a>
</form>
You could add a hidden field on the page (set it's name property), set it's value to helloworld.
Then in your hyperlink's onclick call form.submit()
