jQuery form submit() is not working in IE6?

Question

I want to submit a with using jquery as below;

$(\"#formid\").submit();

Its working perfect in all browsers except IE6.

How to mak

Answer 1

I've recently had a similar issue, where I was creating a "pseudo-form" within an ASP.NET server form (so I couldn't use another form tag), which I wanted to post to another domain without needing to write server-side code to do the remote post. Easy answer - create a form on the fly and submit it. Works in good browsers...

After some trials and tribulations, I realised that IE won't work as expected (what a surprise) unless the form that is being submitted has been added to DOM. So, this was my solution. I hope it helps some of you. Please be aware, all of my inputs and my submit were in the same container. ".post-to" is a hidden input with the URL.

$(".post-form").click(function(ev) {

    var postto = $(this).siblings(".post-to").val();    
    var form = document.createElement("form")
    $(form).attr("id", "reg-form").attr("name", "reg-form").attr("action", postto).attr("method", "post").attr("enctype", "multipart/form-data");

    $(this).siblings("input:text").each(function() {
        $(form).append($(this).clone());
    });

    document.body.appendChild(form);
    form.submit();
    document.body.removeChild(form);

    return false;
});

Eventually, it works a treat.