$("form").submit() doesn't work with named submit buttons

[ptarjan]

If the <form> has a <input type="submit" name="abc" value="click me"/> then calling $("form").submit() won't trigger the form submission.

Example: ​http://paulisageek.com/tmp/jquery-form-bug.html

Tested on

OSX 10.5 FF3.0.10 WinXP SP3 FF3.0.10

[dmethvin]

Can you change your example to include a complete head and body, and use jquery 1.3.2?

[ojak]

Confirmed on Safari and FF 3.5 as well.

[ojak]

Appears to occur only when the "name" attribute of the "input" element is set to "submit".

Example:

  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Does not work" />

[ojak]

jQuery version tested: jquery-1.3.2

[GreatBigBore]

Same problem occurs if any "input" element has an id of "submit":

<input type="button" id="submit" value="Does not work" />

Also note that it doesn't seem to matter whether the type is "submit".

[dmethvin]

This is a name ambiguity probem; see #3113. Since the workaround may be different with this one I'll leave it open.

[Rick Waldron]

Duplicate of #3685.

[mthurman]

I'm new to jquery so I apologize if I'm missing anything, but I don't think this bug is a duplicate of #3685. I tried putting a fiddle together to show this: ​http://jsfiddle.net/aX5pw/1/

[anssias]

I encountered this bug with jQuery 1.6.4 and Firefox 7.0.1. Just like mthurman said I don't think this ticked should closed as a duplicate.

[jscheel]

Still experiencing this issue. When my submit button's name attr. was "submit", $.submit() did not work. Changing the name immediately fixed the issue.

[gnarf]

Replying to jscheel:

Still experiencing this issue. When my submit button's name attr. was "submit", $.submit() did not work. Changing the name immediately fixed the issue.

This is an epic amount of information about this on ​http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/1414 and ​https://github.com/gnarf37/jquery/commits/bug_1414.

Suffice it to say there is nothing jQuery can do to fix it.

This is an issue that is detected by DOM Lint: ​http://kangax.github.com/domlint/

[gnarf]

Replying to anssias:

I encountered this bug with jQuery 1.6.4 and Firefox 7.0.1. Just like mthurman said I don't think this ticked should closed as a duplicate.

This is most definately a duplicate of #1414 which is closed "wontfix" not because we don't want to fix it, but because we have tried an amazing amount of techniques to get around this bug and none of them solve it. The "bug" is an issue with the DOM model for forms... The form.submit points at the element named submit as opposed to the function which submits the form.

[kobyssh]

Still occurs on Chrome (18.0.1025.162 m)

[kobyssh]

Replying to kobyssh:

Still occurs on Chrome (18.0.1025.162 m)

more details: the button's name was "submit"

[Rick Waldron]

@kobyssh the solution is to not use the word "submit" as the value of an id or name. It's not jQuery, it's the DOM.

[romtek@…]

In my case, no attribute's value is "submit", yet I experience this problem.

<input id="submitBtn" type="submit" value="Save" />

[romtek@…]

Replying to romtek@…:

In my case, no attribute's value is "submit", yet I experience this problem.

except for type attribute, that is