[html] Set a form's action attribute when submitting?

How do I change a form's action attribute right after clicking the submit button?

There's a simple way to do this if you only need to support modern browsers: on your submit button, add a formaction="/alternate/submit/url" attribute like so:

<form>
    [fields]
    <input type="submit" value="Submit to a" formaction="/submit/a">
    <input type="submit" value="submit to b" formaction="/submit/b">
</form>

It also works on <button> tags.

The gotcha is that old versions of IE (<10) and the Android Browser (<4.0) do not support it. So, if you need to support older browsers, then the existing JS answers will probably work better for you.

More info: http://www.wufoo.com/html5/attributes/13-formaction.html

You can also set onSubmit attribute's value in form tag. You can set its value using Javascript.

Something like this:

<form id="whatever" name="whatever" onSubmit="return xyz();">
    Here is your entire form
    <input type="submit">
</form>;

<script type=text/javascript>
function xyz() {
  document.getElementById('whatever').action = 'whatever you want'
}
</script>

Remember that onSubmit has higher priority than action attribute. So whenever you specify onSubmit value, that operation will be performed first and then the form will move to action.

HTML5's formaction does not work on old IE browsers. An easy fix, based on some of the responses above, is:

<button onclick="this.form.action='/PropertiesList';" 
    Account Details </button>

<input type='submit' value='Submit' onclick='this.form.action="somethingelse";' />

Or you can modify it from outside the form, with javascript the normal way:

 document.getElementById('form_id').action = 'somethingelse';

You can try this:

<form action="/home">_x000D_
  _x000D_
  <input type="submit" value="cancel">_x000D_
  _x000D_
  <input type="submit" value="login" formaction="/login">_x000D_
  <input type="submit" value="signup" formaction="/signup">_x000D_
  _x000D_
</form>

You can do that on javascript side .

<input type="submit" value="Send It!" onClick="return ActionDeterminator();">

When clicked, the JavaScript function ActionDeterminator() determines the alternate action URL. Example code.

function ActionDeterminator() {
  if(document.myform.reason[0].checked == true) {
    document.myform.action = 'http://google.com';
  }
  if(document.myform.reason[1].checked == true) {
    document.myform.action = 'http://microsoft.com';
    document.myform.method = 'get';
  }
  if(document.myform.reason[2].checked == true) {
    document.myform.action = 'http://yahoo.com';
  }
  return true;
}