Submit form using a button outside the <form> tag

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I had an issue where I was trying to hide the form from a table cell element, but still show the forms submit-button. The problem was that the form element was still taking up an extra blank space, making the format of my table cell look weird. The display:none and visibility:hidden attributes didn't work because it would hide the submit button as well, since it was contained within the form I was trying to hide. The simple answer was to set the forms height to barely nothing using CSS

So,

CSS -

    #formID {height:4px;}

worked for me.