document.forms['myformname'].submit() bombs 1

[HelloMike]

I have a magazine subscription. I go into the publisher's website to change my address details (coz I've just moved house), and get to a list of hyperlinks. I click on one of these and a javascript error pops up:

    Object doesn't support this property or method.

So I View Source and locate the offending bit of code:

    <a href=&quot;javascript:document.forms['myformname'].submit();&quot;>Some text</a>

Before I phone or email the publisher to rant at them for pointing me at a useless non-facility I'd like to be able to provide them with some sort of solution, because it seems to me it should be a simple thing to sort out. But my javascript is fairly lamentable, hence this post.

Any solutions ?

Oh, er, I'm using IE6 SP1.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[palbano]

try document.forms[red]([/red]'myformname'[red])[/red].submit();">

-pete

 

[clarkin]

if it is the first form on the page:
[tt]document.forms[0].submit();[/tt]
or call it by name:
[tt]document.myformname.submit();[/tt]
or refer to it using DOM:
[tt]document.getElementByName('myformname').submit();[/tt]


One thing to watch out for, if they have a submit button there with name="submit" javascript gets confused between the form's submit method and the submit button

Posting code? Wrap it with code tags: [ignore]

[/ignore][code]CodeHere

[ignore][/code][/ignore].

 

[HelloMike]

Thanks clarkin,

You've prompted me to look at some stuff I wrote ages ago, and one construct that works fine is

document.myformname.submit();

Cheers,
Mike