jQuery form submission error

Question

I have a form like this:

<form method="post" action="user_submit.php" id="addUserForm">
 <p>
 <label for="username">Enter Username:*</label>
 <input type="text" name="username" id="username">
 </p>
 <p>
 <label for="firstname">Enter First Name*</label>
 <input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstname">
 </p>

:

 <input type="hidden" name="addUser" value="1" />
 <p><input type="button" name="submit" value="submit" id="submit_AddUser" onClick="validate_addUser();" ></p>

this is the simple js im using

function validate_addUser(){
 if (!$('#username').val())
 alert('Please enter Username');
 else if (!$('#firstname').val())
 alert("Please enter first name");
 else if (!$('#lastname').val())
 alert("Please enter last name");
 else if (!$('#email').val())
 alert("Please enter email address");
 else 
 $('#addUserForm').submit();
}

When I submit the form, this is the error that im getting

e[h] is not a function
[Break On This Error] 
...{href:function(a){return a.getAttribute("href")

• Ja͢ck: Your code seems okay, perhaps you should retry with jQuery development version; that should give you more details
• charlietfl: how is form submitting? if you don't have a submit handler, validation function won't stop it submitting regardless if it validates or not
• Dave Newton: @charlietfl You can just call submit() on a form with no problem, it's even an example in the jQuery .submit docs.
• charlietfl: @DaveNewton I realize you can call submit, but without returning false in clcik handler there is nothing stopping default submit if validation test fails
• The Alpha: @DaveNewton, charlietfl is right, without preventing default behavior you can't check the form.

Answer 1

I changed the name from submit to go and it started working, dyaamn!!

<input type="button" name="go" value="go" id="gogogo" onClick="validate_addUser();" >

• James: Weird, but taking the name "submit" out worked for me as well.