Is action really required on forms?
Here it says it's required http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_form_action.asp but I see that forms get submitted even if I don't specify an action attribute, and the form gets submitted to the current page which is exactly what I want. The requirement is only by standards . It is perfectly possible to do whatever you want on a page and not follow standards. Things may not display or work correctly if you do that, but likely they will. The goal is to follow them, and the idea is that if you follow them, your page will always work; you don't have to worry about anything. Yes, the form is required