Javascript form submit: Object doesn't support this property or method (IE7)

Question

I\'m trying to submit a form with javascript. Firefox works fine but IE complains that \"Object doesn\'t support this property or method\" on the submit line of this functio

Answer 1

Are you sure you have your JavaScript library loaded? (jQuery or Prototype)

It worked for me in IE7 with Prototype.

Try:

alert($('ProductGroupVisibility').id)

See if you get an error.

Answer 2

Try checking the type of the element IE is selecting:

// For getting element with id you must use # 
alert( typeof( $( '#ProductGroupVisibility' )));

It is possible there is something else on the page with that ID that IE selects before the form.

Answer 3

beware of any inputs in the form with name='submit', they break the javascript .submit() functionality!

Answer 4

What javascript framework are you using? If it's jQuery I think you'll need to add # to your id:

$('#ProductGroupVisibility').submit();

Answer 5

What name does your <input type="submit"> have?

If you called it "submit", you have overridden the form.submit() function, much the same way an input called "foo" would generate a form.foo property. That would explain the behavior.