Submit Form onChange with JavaScript

11:54am September 16, 2005

I've been fighting with IE and FF for a couple days now, trying to get a JavaScript "onChange" to work. I wanted a table of employees to be automaticly updated when someone selected an option from a form drop down menu. I had no problem getting it to work in one or the other browser, but never in both browsers at the same time.

After searching around the net for a way to get this done, I finally found the correct way to get the job done in both IE and FF. By simply putting a 'onChange="Javascript:document.form1.submit()"' in the <select> tag, the form will automaticly submit the form(which reloads the page and the table on it) without the need for a submit button to be pressed.

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Michael

Thanks for the article---I spent an hour looking around the 'net before I found your solution to my little problem. Good work!

billy

do you know to have that onchange option, but still be able to have a submit button on the form? currently it works only if i don't have a submit button on the form

Chris Charlton

Hi, I know this article is pretty old but it has just helped me out. It's amazing how difficult it is to find the basics out there on the net.