There is no way round it, and it's not down to jQuery.
You're going to have to call your 'action' field something else.
On Oct 26, 12:10 pm, Adrian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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>
