element.click() on submit button not passing value

[louis w]

I am using JS to replace my submit buttons with A tags w/ observers.
The reason for this is I want better looking buttons. When the A is
clicked it does some validation, and then "clicks" the hidden submit
button.

When JS "clicks" the button however they name/value is not getting
submitted along with the other form values in the _POST such as if a
person clicked a regular submit button. Do you know how to get this
to happen?

As an FYI, here is the code I am using:


$(form).select('INPUT[type="submit"]').each(function(b) {

new_id = 'submit_btn_'+i;

// Turning off hide so you can test the difference
// input_button = b.hide();
input_button = b;
input_button.insert({after: '<a class="button_dark submit"
id="'+new_id+'" href="#" onClick="this.blur();"><span>'+
input_button.value +'</span></a>'});
new_button = $(new_id);

// Can't use click, because sometimes mouseup/down does not happen on
the same element, there is a span in there too.
new_button.observe('mouseup', function(e) {
e.stop();
// Do some validation
if (true) input_button.click();
});

i++;

});

[T.J. Crowder]

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[louis w]

Thanks I will ask there. I was wondering what was up with all this
spam.
The name of this list makes a lot more sense too.