I am planning on setting up multiple forms on a page and wanted to make sure that this is ok. Do submit buttons act only on the form they are inside of or do they apply to all the forms on a page?
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I am planning on setting up multiple forms on a page and wanted to make sure that this is ok. Do submit buttons act only on the form they are inside of or do they apply to all the forms on a page?
A submit button submits a form. It seems that the specifications do not clearly say that this means the enclosing
formelement, probably because this was taken as self-evident. And it’s certainly what browsers do.HTML5 drafts make this a bit clearer by introducing the concept of “form owner” of a field (such as a submit button). By default, the form owner is the enclosing
formelement, though the proposedformattribute of a field could change this. And a submit button is defined as submitting the form owner.