Re: Submitting a form with a javascript

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From: Greg Griffiths
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:10

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You have two choices :

1. Add a document.<form name>.submit() call at the end of your validation
2. add your validation as an onsubmit component of your Form.

Allen Brooker wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I need to know how to submit a form using a javascript.
> Scenario:
> I have a form. When the submit button is clicked I want it to call a
> javascript which checks that the necessary fields have been filled in,
> then submit the form using the 'post' method to a Perl CGI script.
>
> TIA
> Allen

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