How to submit a Form by using a textlink POST method

Question

I'm new to PHP but was wondering how this can be done.

I want to have submit an HTML form to another PHP page, but i dont want to use the ugly button. I want to use a link.

The thing is, i see many solutions out there that uses Java Script/Jquery etc to solve this, Does any one know how to do this with PHP code and HTML only?

Answer 1

You can do this way:

<a href="#" onclick="document.forms['form_name'].submit();">Submit</a>

That will submit the form to whatever url set in the action attribute of the form.

Answer 2

Either use a <input type="submit"> and style it like a link with css, or create a Link with onclick:

<a href="#" onclick="document.forms['name_of_your_form'].submit();">Lol Rofl</a>

If you want to make sure it works when JS is disabled, add something like this:

<noscript>
    <input type="submit" ... />
</noscript>

This will show the button on computers where JS is disabled, the link above will still be shown. A workaround is to hide the link with CSS and then show it with JS..

Answer 3

I dont know how much Buttons are capable of being styled in a uniform way across all browser, but here is a start/proof of concept you can fiddle with, read: test, adjust, put into external CSS, and so on

<input type="submit" value="Send" style="
    border:0;
    background-color:transparent;
    color: blue;
    text-decoration:underline;
"/>