Question

so I’m trying to intercept a javascript form submission using jquery, and having some issues. I put Spring in the tags because I wonder if the issue could be that I’m using a spring form:form tag, rather than just a straight html form. Basically, the handler seems to be totally ignored, with the submission going on regardless.

The relevant code is as follows:

function submitForm(functionName){
    var form = document.getElementById("evalAdminForm");
    //does some stuff
    form.submit();
}

$('form').submit(function(){
    alert("SUBMITDETECTED");
});

<form:form commandName="evaluation" id="evalAdminForm" name="evalAdminForm" method="post">
    //the form is in here
</form:form>

Thanks!

Answer 1

Submit events fire when forms are submitted manually, not in response to JavaScript calling the submit method.

If you are going to trigger form submission using JS (and there is almost never a time when doing so is better than having a submit button) then you need to manually fire any other functions you want to run at the same time.