Using text link as submit button?

[doctormelodious]

Greetings,

I know I can use an image as a submit button on a form. Is it possible to use a text link?

I tried this in a form that works fine when it uses a normal submit button:

<a href="" onClick="this.form.submit();" style="text-decoration:none">Upload</a>

but it didn't work. (The empty URL was to make it clickable.)

Thanks!
Perry

[DrDoc]

you need to add

return false

to the onclick event to cancel the normal link behavior.

[doctormelodious]

Hi DrDoc,

Thanks for the quick reply! I tried this:

<font face=arial,helvetica size=1><b><a href="" onClick="this.form.submit();return false;" style="text-decoration:none">Upload</a></b></font>

and this:

<font face=arial,helvetica size=1><b><a href="" onClick="return false;this.form.submit();" style="text-decoration:none">Upload</a></b></font>

but the form still failed to submit. Is there another place I should try the "return false"?

Thank again,
Perry

[DrDoc]

Oh, and, I just noticed one more thing... You can't refer to the form with

this.form

since the hyperlink is not part of the form. You can, however, do something like

document.forms[0].submit()

[doctormelodious]

DrDoc,

You rock! That did the trick.

Thanks!
Perry