HTML <button> formaction Attribute
Example
A form with two submit buttons. The first submit button submits the form data to "action_page.php", and the second submits to "action_page2.php":
<form action="/action_page.php" method="get">
<label for="fname">First name:</label>
<input type="text" id="fname"
name="fname"><br><br>
<label for="lname">Last name:</label>
<input type="text" id="lname" name="lname"><br><br>
<button
type="submit">Submit</button>
<button type="submit" formaction="/action_page2.php">Submit to another page</button>
</form>
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Definition and Usage
The formaction
attribute specifies where to send the form-data when a form is
submitted. This attribute overrides the form's action
attribute.
The formaction
attribute is only used for buttons with
type="submit"
.
Browser Support
The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the attribute.
Attribute | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
formaction | 9.0 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 5.1 | 15.0 |
Syntax
<button type="submit" formaction="URL">
Attribute Values
Value | Description |
---|---|
URL | Specifies where to send the form data. Possible values:
|
❮ HTML <button> tag