HTML form with two submit buttons and two “target” attributes

Question

I have one HTML

.

The form has only one action=\"\" attribute.

However I wish to have two different target=\"\" attribu

Answer 1

It is more appropriate to approach this problem with the mentality that a form will have a default action tied to one submit button, and then an alternative action bound to a plain button. The difference here is that whichever one goes under the submit will be the one used when a user submits the form by pressing enter, while the other one will only be fired when a user explicitly clicks on the button.

Anyhow, with that in mind, this should do it:

With this javascript:

var form = document.getElementById('myform');
form.onsubmit = function() {
    form.target = '_self';
};

document.getElementById('btn2').onclick = function() {
    form.target = '_blank';
    form.submit();
}

Approaches that bind code to the submit button's click event will not work on IE.