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form "action" attribute via javascript I'm feeling a bit daft today. I have a form on the page and want to read its "action" attribute with javascript. But I also have an element in that form named action. When I try to read the "action" attribute of the form element, it gives me the value of the input element. What am I doing wrong here? <form method="post" action="somewhere.php" name="form1"> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="Hello"> </form> <script type="text/javascript"> alert(document.forms[0].action); // is an object alert(document.forms[0].action.value); // alerts "Hello", not "somewhere.php" alert(document.getElementsByTagName("FORM")[0].getAttribute("action")); // is the INPUT, not the FORM, even though i'm getting the attribute off the form object... hmm </script>   Started By frumbert on Feb 23, 2006 at 10:03:00 PM

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saintjude on Feb 24, 2006 at 1:03:22 AM (# 2) What am I doing wrong here? Er... having a form element named "action". Change it. Even "Action" might do. MHenke on Feb 24, 2006 at 1:58:17 AM (# 3) Well, the approach using DOM-Methods (#3) is definitely the right one. But it seems we've a clear IE-bug here (FF correctly returns "somewhere.php"). Use document.getElementsByTagName("FORM")[0].getAttributeNode("action").value); instead to persuade IE to actually take the attribute node. Of course, renaming the input element should also work, but it's far less geeky, and since when we let the browser dictate how we name our elements?  8) saintjude on Feb 24, 2006 at 4:06:09 AM (# 4) 1995 ? MHenke on Feb 24, 2006 at 4:27:37 AM (# 5) Roughly, yep. frumbert on Feb 27, 2006 at 12:16:10 AM (# 6) getAttributeNode("action").value good one MHenke :-) Hadn't thought of that (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't have asked). saintjude > Yeah I know, but it came up that I has access to the form element but the html containing the element named "action" was a ssi in the page and I couldn't change that include file! How come "worst case scenarios" always come up in my line of work?

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