Set a form's action attribute when submitting?

Question

How do I change a form's action attribute right after clicking the submit button?

Answer 1

<input type='submit' value='Submit' onclick='this.form.action="somethingelse";' />

Or you can modify it from outside the form, with javascript the normal way:

 document.getElementById('form_id').action = 'somethingelse';

Answer 2

You can do that on javascript side .

<input type="submit" value="Send It!" onClick="return ActionDeterminator();">

When clicked, the JavaScript function ActionDeterminator() determines the alternate action URL. Example code.

function ActionDeterminator() {
  if(document.myform.reason[0].checked == true) {
    document.myform.action = 'http://google.com';
  }
  if(document.myform.reason[1].checked == true) {
    document.myform.action = 'http://microsoft.com';
    document.myform.method = 'get';
  }
  if(document.myform.reason[2].checked == true) {
    document.myform.action = 'http://yahoo.com';
  }
  return true;
}

Answer 3

You can also set onSubmit attribute's value in form tag. You can set its value using Javascript.

Something like this:

<form id="whatever" name="whatever" onSubmit="return xyz();">
    Here is your entire form
    <input type="submit">
</form>;

<script type=text/javascript>
function xyz() {
  document.getElementById('whatever').action = 'whatever you want'
}
</script>

Remember that onSubmit has higher priority than action attribute. So whenever you specify onSubmit value, that operation will be performed first and then the form will move to action.

Answer 4

HTML5's formaction does not work on old IE browsers. An easy fix, based on some of the responses above, is:

<button onclick="this.form.action='/PropertiesList';" 
    Account Details </button>

Answer 5

There's a simple way to do this if you only need to support modern browsers: on your submit button, add a formaction="/alternate/submit/url" attribute like so:

<form>
    [fields]
    <input type="submit" value="Submit to a" formaction="/submit/a">
    <input type="submit" value="submit to b" formaction="/submit/b">
</form>

It also works on <button> tags.

The gotcha is that old versions of IE (<10) and the Android Browser (<4.0) do not support it. So, if you need to support older browsers, then the existing JS answers will probably work better for you.

More info: http://www.wufoo.com/html5/attributes/13-formaction.html

Answer 6

Attach to the submit button click event and change the action attribute in the event handler.