Sometimes, we want to stop an input field in a form from being submitted with JavaScript.
In this article, we’ll look aty how to stop an input field in a form from being submitted with JavaScript.
How to stop an input field in a form from being submitted with JavaScript?
To stop an input field in a form from being submitted with JavaScript, we set the name
property of the field we don’t want to submit to an empty string.
For instance, we write
document.getElementById("TheInputsIdHere").name = "";
document.getElementById("TheFormsIdHere").submit();
to get the input with getElementById
and set its name
to an empty string to stop it from being submitted.
Then we get the form with getElementById
and call submit
to submit the form.
Conclusion
To stop an input field in a form from being submitted with JavaScript, we set the name
property of the field we don’t want to submit to an empty string.