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Asked: 2026-06-16T06:47:34+00:00

I have a simple HTML form that will not submit in IE9. It works

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I have a simple HTML form that will not submit in IE9. It works in Chrome, FF, and IE10.

I have tried to submit in IE9 on Windows 7 and IE10 on Windows 8.

IE10 works unless I change the browser mode to IE9; then it won’t submit.

Demo. If you click “Save” on any working browser, it’ll take you to the fake demo_form.asp.

Here is the form:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>Title</title> 
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> 

        <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.2.0/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.css" />
        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.2.min.js"></script>
        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.2.0/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div data-role="page">
            <div data-role="header">
                <h1>Title</h1>
            </div>
            <div data-role="fieldcontain">
                <div class="error-messsage">
                    <p/>
                </div>
                <p>
                    <form action="demo_form.asp" data-ajax="false" method="get">
                        <input type="hidden" name="scoreType" id="_scoreType" value="T"/>
                        <div data-role="fieldcontain">
                            <fieldset class="ui-grid-a">
                                <div class="ui-block-a">Minutes:</div>
                                <div class="ui-block-b">Seconds:</div>
                                <div class="ui-block-a">
                                    <input type="number" name="score_minutes" value="1" id="_scoreMinutes" maxlength="20" autocomplete="off" data-inline="true"/>
                                </div>
                                <div class="ui-block-b">
                                    <input type="number" name="score_seconds" value="2" id="_scoreSeconds" maxlength="20" autocomplete="off" data-inline="true"/>
                                </div>
                            </fieldset>
                            <input type="hidden" name="score" id="_score" value="62"/>
                        </div>
                        <div data-role="fieldcontain">
                            <label for="_note">Note:</label>
                            <textarea name="note" cols="40" rows="10" id="_note" autocomplete="off"/>
                        </div>
                        <div data-role="fieldcontain">
                            <label for="_classAttended" class="select">Class Time:</label>
                            <select name="class_attended" id="_classAttended" data-native-menu="false">
                                <option value="-1"/>
                                <option value="6">06:00 am</option>>
</select>
                        </div>
                        <div data-role="fieldcontain">
                            <label for="_memberRating" class="select">Member Rating:</label>
                            <select name="member_rating" id="_memberRating" data-native-menu="false">
                                <option value="-1"/>
                                <option value="5">5 </option>
                            </select>
                        </div>
                        <div data-role="fieldcontain">
                            <label for="_rx">RX</label>
                            <input type="checkbox" name="rx" value="1" id="_rx" data-mini="true"/>
                        </div>
                        <div data-role="fieldcontain">
                            <a href="http://mysite.com/index.php/welcome/index/TRUE" data-ajax="false" data-role="button" data-inline="true">Cancel</a>
                            <button name="" type="Submit" id="_submit" class="ui-btn-hidden" value="Save" aria-disabled="false" data-inline="true" data-theme="b"/>
                        </div>
                    </form>
                </p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    You have a <div> that’s trying to be inside a <form> that’s inside a <p>. But <div>s can’t be inside a <p>, so the HTML parser closes the <p> element, and in doing so also closes the <form>. So the save button is not inside the form, and in consequence IE9 doesn’t know what to submit when you click the button. Remove the <p> tags that surround the <form>.

    The HTML5 parser as used in FF, Chrome and IE10 has some nifty tricks to cope with your invalid markup, but the older IE9 parser cannot cope.

    Also, you have <p/> and <textarea/>. Don’t do that. Self closing syntax is not supported for either element.

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