Set a form's action attribute when submitting?

Question

How do I change a form\'s action attribute right after clicking the submit button?

Answer 1

There's a simple way to do this if you only need to support modern browsers: on your submit button, add a formaction="/alternate/submit/url" attribute like so:

    [fields]
    
    

It also works on tags.

The gotcha is that old versions of IE (<10) and the Android Browser (<4.0) do not support it. So, if you need to support older browsers, then the existing JS answers will probably work better for you.

More info: http://www.wufoo.com/html5/attributes/13-formaction.html