All Event Handlers
Submit
EVENT HANDLER: onSubmit
onSubmit
= myJavaScriptCode
Event handler for
Form
The
onSubmit
event handler is used to execute specified JavaScript code whenever the user submits a form, and as such, is included within the HTML <FORM> tag. The
onSubmit
event handler uses the following properties of the
Event
object:
type
- indicates the type of event.
target
- indicates the target object to which the event was sent.
In the following example, the
onSubmit
event handler calls the 'submitEvent' function:
Code:
<FORM onSubmit="submitEvent()">
If you want to validate the information in the form and only allow it to be submitted if it meets your requirements, you will need to put a
return
statement that returns
false
in the event handler, as in the following example using the 'validate' function:
Code:
<FORM onSubmit="return validate(this)">
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