Changing the action of a form with JavaScript/jQuery

Question

I\'m having an issue that is driving me crazy. I\'m trying to modify the openid-selector to support facebook. I\'m using RPXNow as my provider so it requires the form to be

Answer 1

You can actually just use

$("#form").attr("target", "NewAction");

As far as I know, this will NOT fail silently.

If the page is opening in a new target, you may need to make sure the URL is unique each time because Webkit (chrome/safari) will cache the fact you have visited that URL and won't perform the post.

For example

$("form").attr("action", "/Pages/GeneratePreview?" + new Date().getMilliseconds());