Question

In the code bellow, if I have the line hackButton.type='hidden', my form gets submitted (which is what I want), but I don’t want to hide the button. What is the alternative that I have? I can’t change it to ‘submit’ or ‘button’ since they don’t work.

   var hackButton = document.loginform.submit_login;
   hackButton.type='button';
   var listener = 
   hackButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
      //do things here before form submission                    
     hackButton.type='hidden'; 
     setTimeout("document.loginform.submit()", 3000);
   }, true);

Answer 1

Try setTimeout("document.loginform.submit", 3000); or setTimeout(document.loginform.submit, 3000); or even setTimeout(function() { document.loginform.submit() }, 3000);