submit() doesnt work

Desperately need help

[one_mind]

Hi,

I have the following function which changes a forms action and it should then submit the form.

<script type="text/javascript">
function sub()
{
document.projects.action="form.php";
document.projects.submit();
}
</script>

The action is changed successfully but the form doesn't submit. I get the error generated from the submit() line:

Object doesn't support this property or method.

This code seems to work for others but not me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Bernard Marx]

Check that you haven't given your submit button the name, "submit" (a common mistake)

[kaled]

Are you certain that the projects object is the form?

Try
with (documents.forms[0]) {
action = "form.php";
submit();
}

Kaled.

[rocknbil]

Another take is to not reference the form name, reference the form object. This provides you more flexibility and you can pass any form to the function, as in:

<form name="form1" action="" onSubmit="return false;">
<input type="text" name="wysiwyg">
<input type="submit" name="submitButton" onClick="someRoutine(this.form);" value="submit">
</form>

<form name="form2" action="" onSubmit="return false;">
<input type="text" name="wysiwyg">
<input type="submit" name="submitButton" onClick="someRoutine(this.form);" value="submit">
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
function someRoutine(form) {
alert('form name is '+ form.name);
form.action = (form.name=='form1')?'script1.php':'script2.php';
form.submit();
}
</script>