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Difference between <a href> and document.form.submit()

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Oct 21.2007

Hi All,

I am using Spring and Velocity.My requirement is, there is a hyperlink, when the user clicks the hyperlink it should call my spring action class and show the data for that Id.

when i used < a href=”<pass the URL here>”> it works fine. Instead of that if i call javascript function and saying,

[code=html]document.forms[0].action=”my actoin path”;
document.form[0].submit();
[/code]

if i give like this , it goes to the action and it submits the form,so i am unable to view my edit page. because once i submit it goes to the SUCCESS page.

i want to know why it happen like this, what difference it really makes when you use < a href> and document.forms[0].submit()??

Pls share with me.

Regards
Kishan.

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@scragarOct 21.2007 — if it submits your form to the same page and the link changes the page your going to notice a problem since your loading 2 links in 1 frame/window. use multiple windows/frames to diferentiate or submit the info first, then when submiting is finished follow the link(using ajax or an iframe)
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@kishansauthorOct 21.2007 — HI,

Thanks for your reply. I am not using both <a href> and document.forms[0].submit(). i am using either of these one.
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