TIL – submit() versus requestSubmit()
Today I learned (well, technically, a few days ago, the week has been a lot), that the web platform supports a requestSubmit method. Since the beginning of time (or the beginning of JavaScript), we’ve been able to submit forms like so:
var myForm = document.getElementById('theform');myForm.submit();
I intentionally used getElementById there as a reminder of what we had before jQuery. Given that, why do we need another method? Two important requests.
Reason the First #
When using submit, any validation of form fields is completely skipped. Consider this form:
<form method="post" id="theForm"> <p> <label for="name">Name</label> <input... more →
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