I agree, it’s preferable to bind to the form’s submit event rather than the submit button’s click event. Pressing enter to submit the form likely won’t fire the click event

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I agree, it’s preferable to bind to the form’s submit event rather than the submit button’s click event. Pressing enter to submit the form likely won’t fire the click event

I pinged CFbloggers because a new post of mine never went through the aggregator, which for some reason caused ALL my posts to show up again! whoops.

In “Plain ol’ JS”, I’ve always thought it was preferable to call a validate method on a form’s submit event rather than a submit button’s click event. I think one of the reasons is that there’s the click event of the button, and then a distinct separate event whereby the submit button submits the form.

That seems to be supported by the results of your first example.

I would have gone with example #2, but would have given the submit an ID and called it that way. Until reading this, didn’t realize you could reference a form’s submit element via ‘:submit’. Very cool.

What’s the 2nd attribute (the ‘this’) in that selector? I assume it restricts the selector to the submit button for the form element that triggered the event, but googling for confirmation has yet to provide worthwhile.

In “Plain ol’ JS”, I’ve always thought it was preferable to call a validate method on a form’s submit event rather than a submit button’s click event. I think one of the reasons is that there’s the click event of the button, and then a distinct separate event whereby the submit button submits the form.

That seems to be supported by the results of your first example.

I would have gone with example #2, but would have given the submit an ID and called it that way. Until reading this, didn’t realize you could reference a form’s submit element via ‘:submit’. Very cool.

What’s the 2nd attribute (the ‘this’) in that selector? I assume it restricts the selector to the submit button for the form element that triggered the event, but googling for confirmation has yet to provide worthwhile.