Comments on: A Firefox Javascript bug?

// You can make the submit

Simon — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:25:34 +0100

// You can make the submit event fire when the form is submitted via a script (works only in FF):
var Event = document.createEvent('HTMLEvents'); Event.initEvent('submit', false, false); d.forms[0].dispatchEvent(Event);

Also worth noting is that

Derek — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 00:28:33 +0100

Also worth noting is that submit events, whether in the onsubmit attribute or dynamically added, will not fire when form.submit(); is used. This is in IE and Firefox and I guess others.

[...] Firefox canceling proble

Gerd Riesselmann: Notes From The Bog - Firefox canceling pro — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:30:04 +0200

[...] Firefox canceling problem solved I’d like to thank Johannes Hölzl, who pointed out my stupid mistake regarding canceling form sub [...]

The ECMAScript binding for DOM Events says that the EventListe

Johannes Hölzl — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:38:16 +0200

The ECMAScript binding for DOM Events says that the EventListener (which is the function "cancel") hasn't any returnvalue. But you get as parameter an Event object, where you can call "stopPropagation()" or "preventDefault()".