On Nov 15, 2:45 am, sprach wrote: <snip> > ... . In the code > above, firebug claims that form.submit() is not a function.
The DOM allows named form controls to be accessed as named properties of the FORM element object. However, the FORM elements have a set of properties/methods of their own, including the - submit - method. So, in the event that any form control has the same name as a pre-existing property of the FORM element the reference to the form control replaces the value of the pre-existing property of the FORM element. If one of the form controls you are using (say a submit button) has the name 'submit' a reference to that button would replace the FORM element's - submit - method, and so if you attempted to call the method the browser's error reporting mechanism would tell you that what you were trying to call was 'not a function'. Javascript is case sensitive so this sort of issue can be addressed by applying a simple naming strategy to form controls, such as giving each an initial capital letter in their name.
