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What is onsubmit event in JavaScript?
The onsubmit event is an event that occurs when you try to submit a form. You can put your form validation against this event type. The following example shows how to use onsubmit. Here we are calling a validate() function before submitting a form data to the web server. If validate() function returns true, the form will be submitted, otherwise, it'll not submit the data.
Example
The following example is a code snippet showing the usage of the onsubmit event −
<html> <head> <script> <!-- function validation() { all validation goes here ......... return either true or false } //--> </script> </head> <body> <form method = "POST" action = "t.cgi" onsubmit = "return validate()"> ....... <input type = "submit" value = "Submit" /> </form> </body> </html>
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