Making a Text Link act the Same as a Form Button

[marcus]

<script type="text/javascript">
function insert(el,ins) {
    if (el.setSelectionRange){
        el.value = el.value.substring(0,el.selectionStart) + ins + el.value.substring(el.selectionStart,el.selectionEnd) + el.value.substring(el.selectionEnd,el.value.length);
    }
    else if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) {
        el.focus();
        var range = document.selection.createRange();
        range.text = ins + range.text;
    }
}
</script>

<form>
<input type="button" value="Quote This User" onclick="insert(this.form.reply,'[quote=username]their message[/quote]')">
<br />
<textarea rows="7" cols="30" name="reply"></textarea> 

 

Is what I'm trying to do, it make the input type="button" a normal a href="#" link, but act the same way as the input button.

[Zeon]

never tried it, but this should work:

 

<form id="someform">
[...]
</form>
<a href="#" onclick="submitform();return false;">submit form</a>

function submitform(){
    var form = document.getElementById('someform')
    form.submit()
}

[marcus]

Well I want the link the act the same way as the input button I have posted.