Why Form Elements should not be named submit?

Question

I figured out through debugging that I should not name any Form Elements name=\"submit\", but even after searching I didn\'t find any good explanation of why?

Answer 1

Say your form is named "foo" and you have a field "firstName".

foo.firstName is that field in the form.

foo.submit() will submit that form, because submit is a method on forms.

If you redefine submit to be a form field you overwrite the submit method.