Changing form action in IE

[bede]

I've got a form with two submit buttons and if one of them is clicked it should change the action of the form. For some stupid reason the code below isn't working.

<input type="submit" name="send" value="send"
onClick="javascript: document.forms[0].action='sender.php'">

IE complains that there is no such property or method called action for the form object. If i put "forms[0].ACTION=...." it dowsn't give an error but doesn't change the action at all. I've read that IE didn't support the changing of action in IE v3 put i'm using v6. Please help!!

[Jona]

Try using two forms

[bede]

I'd rather not. I'm posting the same elemetns to both scripts so its definately the easiest thing to do. I don't want a work around, there should be a simple explanation for it.

[Jona]

DO'H! I was thinking something else... Yeah, hehe, I getcha. Sorry, I don't really know.

[bede]

no luck. Still "object does not support this property or method". I've checked my code many times over and everything seems to be fine. It doesn't complain when I change the method, enctype or any other property. And why doesn't it complain when I put a property name in uppercase? I can even put "this.form.HJKHKJ='blah'" and it doesn't give me an error. Did I mention I hate Javascript & DOM?

[Nedals]

<input type="submit" name="send" value="send"
onClick="java script: document.forms[0].action='sender.php'">
If this is a direct paste of your code, the problem is simply that 'javascript' in one word although you don't need it at all.

<input type="submit" name="send" value="send"
onClick="document.forms[0].action='sender.php'">

should work.

[bede]

OK, I'm an idiot. I had a hidden field called "action" which it was obviously getting confused with. I just thought it would have only assumed I was referencing the hidden field if I'd tried to access one of its properties.

(eg document.forms[0].action.value='blah')