Submitting form via jQuery (Javascript) failing

Question

What am I missing here? If I try to submit the form via javascript it doesn't work.

Error (submitting with a regular JS reference and jQuery reference returns the same error)

 SCRIPT3: Member not found.

Code:

<a href="#" onclick="refresh_customer_data();return false;">Refresh customer data</a>
<script type="text/javascript">
function refresh_customer_data()
{
 $("#post-form").attr("action", "../scripts/refresh-customer-data.asp");
 $("#post-form").submit();
}
 </script>
<form method="post" action="" id="post-form">
<input type="hidden" name="fromsubmit" value="true" />
<table class="form" style="height:50px;">
<tfoot>
 <tr>
 <td><span class="required">*</span> Accessible by administrators only</td>
 <td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="" style="display:none;" /></td>
 </tr> 
</tfoot>
</table>
</form> 

Thanks!

Answer 1

Why not use jQuery post to send your data to server page like this

<a href="#" id="aRefresh">Refresh customer data</a>

Javascript:

$(function(){
 $("#aRefresh").click(function(e){
 e.preventDefault();
 $.post("../scripts/refresh-customer-data.asp", $("#post-form").serialize(),function(data){
 //do whatever with the response from server page
 }) 
 });
 });

• Tom: Force of habit mostly, I'll check out your method too.
• Tom: Nevermind, self-inflicted misery. Was doing something on document.ready that interfered with the submit method. Will flip a coin between you and Lokase for the checkmark.

Answer 2

Instead of inline calling the function, why not use jQuery to do it for you:

http://jsfiddle.net/8XdwS/

• Tom: I still get the member not found error with that code. Weird thing is if I move the </form> tag to right after the hidden input value, it works fine. Only when I put it after the table element does it fail. In all instances.
• Tom: Nevermind, self-inflicted misery. Was doing something on document.ready that interfered with the submit method. Will flip a coin between you and Shyju for the checkmark.

Answer 3

I know this is an old thread but for everybody's information:

I have come across this issue as well, and the problem was having the submit button named submit.

Renaming the submit button ie. to submit2 solved the issue.