The long subject says it all! If I have a hidden field named 'action', trying to change the form action attribute fails in IE7.
If I change the hidden field to something other than action it works. Can anyone think of a way around this? I would like to keep the hidden field named 'action' if I can. Is this a jquery bug, an IE7 bug, a quirk in JS or am I in the wrong for naming a field 'action'? Here's some sample code to see the problem: <script type="text/javascript" src="/shared-scripts/ jquery-1.2.1.min.js"></script> <form method="post" id="agentForm" action="nowhere.html"> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="No value" /> <input type="text" name="agentName" id="agentName" value="" /> <input type="submit" name="saveAgent" id="saveAgent" value="Save" /> </form> <button id="debug">Debug this fecking page!</button> <script type="text/javascript"> $(function() { $("#saveAgent").click(function() { // This should alert 'nowhere.html' alert("action before: " + $("#agentForm").attr("action")); // Change to 'somewhere.html' $("#agentForm").attr("action", "somewhere.html"); // No worky in IE7! // This should alert 'somewhere.html' but doesn't in IE7 alert("action changed to: " + $("#agentForm").attr("action")); }); }); </script>