Question

I want to stimulate the effect of clicking on button (submit button) through javascript or jQuery in a form.
I tried using .click() in jQuery but got no as such response.

In FireBug Events, I get the following events on the submit button of the form.

mouseup { return fn.apply(object, args); }

function () {
return fn.apply(object, args);
}

mousedown { return fn.apply(object, args); }

function () {
return fn.apply(object, args);
}

Well I don’t know if this information was useful anyway because both mouseup and mousedown seem to be same here.

The source of submit button appears like:

<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />

I have tried other methods to submit the form like .submit() but they did not work. I guess I am left over with stimulating click of button only.

Code:

$('#answer').val("chicago");

$(form).submit();

---

<form id="level" method="post"> 

<br/> 
<label for="answer">Answer:</label> 


<input type="text" name="answer" id="answer" /> 

<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" /> 


</form> 

Answer 1

Since your <input> is named submit, form.submit refers to your DOM element rather than the built-in submit function.

Rename your <input> and form.submit() will work fine