The use of JavaScript has evolved over the years. In the early days we would address a form element using: myform.elementname . Nowadays we prefer to use myform.elements['elementname']. A related problem I ran into and only solved yesterday was, why myform.submit(); was not working. Google presents the answer as the first result: www.thescripts.com/forum/thread542837.html for the query form.submit does not work.
Because my button was named “submit” myform.submit refers to the button instead of the function.
Today I encountered a similar but harder problem. Imagine this form:
<form id=”f1″ action=”go.php” onsubmit=”return ajaxSubmit(this);”><input type=”hidden” name=”action” value=”something” /> ….</form>
So I use document.getElementById(”f1″).getAttribute(”action”); to get the action and submit using AJAX. Which works perfectly well in Firefox… and not in IE…
Apparently IE does not really get you the action attribute but simply object.action…. which in turn is the input element instead of the action attribute, similar to the first problem. Unfortunately I can’t come up with a way to fix the script, so I had to replace the HTML all over the place. (removing the action named input element by defining the action as action=”do.php?action=something”).