Question

I have a form and I would like the ACTION field to be different depending on the button pressed.

For instance the form might get processed by different PHP files if I press button A or button B.

How can I do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

In your buttons you can just set the form’s action, using it’s form property, for example on button a:

this.form.action = "fileA.php";

On the other:

this.form.action = "fileB.php";

You can rig this up externally, like this:

document.getElementById("buttonA").onclick = function() { 
  document.getElementById("myForm").action = "fileA.php";
};

Or if you’re using a library like jQuery:

$(function() {
  $("#buttonA").click(function() {
    $(this).closest("form").attr('action', 'fileA.php');
  });
});