How to Make a ≪Button≫ Not Submit a Form

Can I make a button not submit a form?

The default value for the type attribute of button elements is "submit". Set it to type="button" to produce a button that doesn't submit the form.

<button type="button">Submit</button>

In the words of the HTML Standard: "Does nothing."

HTML button to NOT submit form

I think this is the most annoying little peculiarity of HTML... That button needs to be of type "button" in order to not submit.

<button type="button">My Button</button>

Update 5-Feb-2019: As per the HTML Living Standard (and also HTML 5 specification):

The missing value default and invalid value default are the Submit
Button state.

How to add buttons without submit the form in Angular?

Just add type='button' to it. A button without any defined type in a form acts like a submit button for the form.

Keep button from submitting form Javascript

Since you're not using a type="submit" the only reason your form would submit anything is because you're literally calling the submit() method when the button is clicked. (well, sort of. It's actually form.submit() - the method you created is window.submit()).

By default, an input of type="button" will not do a form submission unless you literally call form.submit()

Disable form auto submit on button click

Buttons like <button>Click to do something</button> are submit buttons.

Set type="button" to change that. type="submit" is the default (as specified by the HTML spec):

The missing value default and invalid value default are the Submit Button state.

Prevent users from submitting a form by hitting Enter

You can use a method such as

$(document).ready(function() {
$(window).keydown(function(event){
if(event.keyCode == 13) {
event.preventDefault();
return false;
}
});
});

In reading the comments on the original post, to make it more usable and allow people to press Enter if they have completed all the fields:

function validationFunction() {
$('input').each(function() {
...

}
if(good) {
return true;
}
return false;
}

$(document).ready(function() {
$(window).keydown(function(event){
if( (event.keyCode == 13) && (validationFunction() == false) ) {
event.preventDefault();
return false;
}
});
});

javascript stop button onClick from submitting form

The default type of a button is "submit"; just override that behavior by setting it to "button".

cell2.innerHTML = "<button type='button' class='remove-condition' onclick='removeCondition()'>X</button></td>";

You also need to define event as a parameter of the event handler function.

function removeCondition(event) {
// event.target will be the input element.
var td = event.target.parentNode;
var tr = td.parentNode; // the row to be removed
tr.parentNode.removeChild(tr);
};


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