Instantly Submit HTML Form Using IFrame and JavaScript

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  1. shabbir

    shabbir Administrator Staff Member

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    Have you ever wondered when you see form on some website submitted in a fraction of a second? Have you ever wanted such forms on your site?

    This is it.

    Let us take a sample form.
    HTML:
    <form method="post" action="SubmitToSomeFile" id="frm" accept-charset=UTF-8 name="frm"> 
    	<table align="center" border="0"> 
    		<tr><td>Name:</td><td><input type="text" name="name" value="" size="20"></td></tr> 
    		<tr><td>Email:</td><td><input type="text" name="email" value="" size="20" id="email"></td></tr> 
    		<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"></td></tr> 
    	</table> 
    </form> 
    
    Now we want this form to be submitted to an iframe. So let us add an iframe and target the form to the iframe.
    HTML:
    <iframe id="SomeFrameName" style="display: none" name="SomeFrameName" src="about:blank"></iframe> 
    <form method="post" action="SubmitToSomeFile" target="SomeFrameName" id="frm" accept-charset=UTF-8 name="frm"> 
    	<table align="center" border="0"> 
    		<tr><td>Name:</td><td><input type="text" name="name" value="" size="20"></td></tr> 
    		<tr><td>Email:</td><td><input type="text" name="email" value="" size="20" id="email"></td></tr> 
    		<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"></td></tr> 
    	</table> 
    </form> 
    
    Now we want to show a success message to the user.
    HTML:
    <div id="before"> 
    	<iframe id="SomeFrameName" style="display: none" name="SomeFrameName" src="about:blank"></iframe> 
    	<form method="post" action="SubmitToSomeFile" target="SomeFrameName" id="frm" accept-charset=UTF-8 name="frm"> 
    		<table align="center" border="0"> 
    			<tr><td>Name:</td><td><input type="text" name="name" value="" size="20"></td></tr> 
    			<tr><td>Email:</td><td><input type="text" name="email" value="" size="20" id="email"></td></tr> 
    			<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" onClick="_submit_form();"></td></tr> 
    		</table> 
    	</form> 
    </div> 
    <div id="after" style="width:99%;border:gray 1px solid;display:none;background-color:#ccc;Padding:5px;height:100px;">Thank you</div> 
    
    And finally the Javascript to toggle the Div's
    HTML:
    <script language="JavaScript"> 
    <!--
    function _submit_form(){
    	document.getElementById('before').style.display = 'none';
    	document.getElementById('after').style.display = 'block';
    	return true
    }
    //-->
    </script> 
    
    Finally the complete HTML.
    HTML:
    <html> 
    <head> 
    <title>Submit Form Demo</title> 
    </head> 
     
    <body> 
    Some Content Before the form.
    <div id="before"> 
    	<iframe id="SomeFrameName" style="display: none" name="SomeFrameName" src="about:blank"></iframe> 
    	<form method="post" action="SubmitToSomeFile" target="SomeFrameName" id="frm" accept-charset=UTF-8 name="frm"> 
    		<table align="center" border="0"> 
    			<tr><td>Name:</td><td><input type="text" name="name" value="" size="20"></td></tr> 
    			<tr><td>Email:</td><td><input type="text" name="email" value="" size="20" id="email"></td></tr> 
    			<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" onClick="_submit_form();"></td></tr> 
    		</table> 
    	</form> 
    </div> 
    <div id="after" style="width:99%;border:gray 1px solid;display:none;background-color:#ccc;Padding:5px;height:100px;">Thank you</div> 
    Some Content After the form.
    <script language="JavaScript"> 
    <!--
    function _submit_form(){
    	document.getElementById('before').style.display = 'none';
    	document.getElementById('after').style.display = 'block';
    	return true
    }
    //-->
    </script> 
     
    </body> 
    </html> 
    
    See the complete working example here.

    One of the disadvantage to the above working is when you have issue with data validation and so it has to be all done in JavaScript on client side.
     
  2. lionaneesh

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    Thanks for such great article...

    Thanks a ton...
     
  3. seoabhisek

    seoabhisek Banned

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    thanks for all this information
     
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    nice info; 10x and keep them coming
     
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    Wow, you guys are the bomb!
     
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