submit form on click event using jquery

Question

So can someone please tell why neither of these options will actually submit the form? I am trying to do something more complicated but I have boiled it down to this to try

Answer 1

Do you need to post the the form to an URL or do you only need to detect the submit-event? Because you can detect the submit-event by adding onsubmit="javascript:alert('I do also submit');"

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Not sure that this is what you are looking for though.