I'm working on an AJAX heavy site for a defined audience who all have JavaScript - so I have a form with no submit button that gets submitted by an change handler.
Normally I'd make sure the site was fully accessible - but not on this project so I just got rid of the submit button. I got the JavaScript submit working only to find my Drupal form no longer worked.
It seems that the Drupal submit handlers are not called if the form doesn't have a submit button. I can't see any reference to this in the Drupal API, but adding the button back in and hiding it via CSS works fine.
Comments
http://www.starbowconsulting.
http://www.starbowconsulting.com/blog/tao/form-without-submit-button
Comments
This is an old thread but I
This is an old thread but I ran into same thing with Drupal 6. After some looking through forms.inc and reviewing the form state array with eclipse I discovered if you set $form_state['submitted'] = true it will go to your submit function properly.
Gene Bernier
Web Developer
Acro Media Inc
http://www.acromediainc.com
Post new comment
Got something to add - just enter a comment
all other fields are optional.