HTML form with two submit buttons and two "target" attributes

In this example, taken from

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75170

You can see the way to change the target on the button OnClick event.

function subm(f,newtarget)
{
document.myform.target = newtarget ;
f.submit();
}


<FORM name="myform" method="post" action="" target="" >


<INPUT type="button" name="Submit" value="Submit" onclick="subm(this.form,'_self');">
<INPUT type="button" name="Submit" value="Submit" onclick="subm(this.form,'_blank');">

On each of your buttons you could have the following;

<input type="button" name="newWin" onclick="frmSubmitSameWin();">
<input type="button" name="SameWin" onclick="frmSubmitNewWin();">

Then have a few small js functions;

<script type="text/javascript">
function frmSubmitSameWin() {
form.target = '';
form.submit();
}




function frmSubmitNewWin() {
form.target = '_blank';
form.submit();
}
</script>

That should do the trick.

Here's a quick example script that displays a form that changes the target type:

<script type="text/javascript">
function myTarget(form) {
for (i = 0; i < form.target_type.length; i++) {
if (form.target_type[i].checked)
val = form.target_type[i].value;
}
form.target = val;
return true;
}
</script>
<form action="" onSubmit="return myTarget(this);">
<input type="radio" name="target_type" value="_self" checked /> Self <br/>
<input type="radio" name="target_type" value="_blank" /> Blank <br/>
<input type="submit">
</form>

It is more appropriate to approach this problem with the mentality that a form will have a default action tied to one submit button, and then an alternative action bound to a plain button. The difference here is that whichever one goes under the submit will be the one used when a user submits the form by pressing enter, while the other one will only be fired when a user explicitly clicks on the button.

Anyhow, with that in mind, this should do it:

<form id='myform' action='jquery.php' method='GET'>
<input type='submit' id='btn1' value='Normal Submit'>
<input type='button' id='btn2' value='New Window'>
</form>

With this javascript:

var form = document.getElementById('myform');
form.onsubmit = function() {
form.target = '_self';
};


document.getElementById('btn2').onclick = function() {
form.target = '_blank';
form.submit();
}

Approaches that bind code to the submit button's click event will not work on IE.

I do this on the server-side. That is, the form always submits to the same target, but I've got a server-side script who is responsible for redirecting to the appropriate location depending on what button was pressed.

If you have multiple buttons, such as

<form action="mypage" method="get">


<input type="submit" name="retry" value="Retry" />
<input type="submit" name="abort" value="Abort" />


</form>

Note: I used GET, but it works for POST too

Then you can easily determine which button was pressed - if the variable retry exists and has a value then retry was pressed, and if the variable abort exists and has a value then abort was pressed. This knowledge can then be used to redirect to the appropriate place.

This method needs no Javascript.

Note: This question and answer was from so many years ago when "wanting to avoid relying on Javascript" was more of a thing than it is today. Today I would not consider writing extra server-side functionality for something like this. Indeed, I think that in most instances where I would need to submit form data to more than one target, I'd probably be doing something that justified doing a lot of the logic client-side in Javascript and using XMLHttpRequest (or indeed, the Fetch API) instead.

Have both buttons submit to the current page and then add this code at the top:

<?php
if(isset($_GET['firstButtonName'])
header("Location: first-target.php?var1={$_GET['var1']}&var2={$_GET['var2']}");
if(isset($_GET['secondButtonName'])
header("Location: second-target.php?var1={$_GET['var1']}&var2={$_GET['var2']}");
?>

It could also be done using $_SESSION if you don't want them to see the variables.

In case you are up to HTML5, you can just use the attribute formaction. This allows you to have a different form action for each button.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<form>
<input type="submit" formaction="firsttarget.php" value="Submit to first" />
<input type="submit" formaction="secondtarget.php" value="Submit to second" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

Example:

<input
type="submit"
onclick="this.form.action='new_target.php?do=alternative_submit'"
value="Alternative Save"
/>

Voila. Very "fancy", three word JavaScript!

HTML:

<form method="get">
<input type="text" name="id" value="123"/>
<input type="submit" name="action" value="add"/>
<input type="submit" name="action" value="delete"/>
</form>

JS:

$('form').submit(function(ev){
ev.preventDefault();
console.log('clicked',ev.originalEvent,ev.originalEvent.explicitOriginalTarget)
})

http://jsfiddle.net/arzo/unhc3/

This works for me:

<input type='submit' name='self' value='This window' onclick='this.form.target="_self";' />


<input type='submit' name='blank' value='New window' onclick='this.form.target="_blank";' />

Simple and easy to understand, this will send the name of the button that has been clicked, then will branch off to do whatever you want. This can reduce the need for two targets. Less pages...!

<form action="twosubmits.php" medthod ="post">
<input type = "text" name="text1">


<input type="submit"  name="scheduled" value="Schedule Emails">
<input type="submit"  name="single" value="Email Now">
</form>

twosubmits.php

<?php
if (empty($_POST['scheduled'])) {
// do whatever or collect values needed
die("You pressed single");
}


if (empty($_POST['single'])) {
// do whatever or collect values needed
die("you pressed scheduled");
}
?>

Alternate Solution. Don't get messed up with onclick,buttons,server side and all.Just create a new form with different action like this.

<form method=post name=main onsubmit="return validate()" action="scale_test.html">
<input type=checkbox value="AC Hi-Side Pressure">AC Hi-Side Pressure<br>
<input type=checkbox value="Engine_Speed">Engine Speed<br>
<input type=submit value="Linear Scale" />
</form>
<form method=post name=main1 onsubmit="return v()" action=scale_log.html>
<input type=submit name=log id=log value="Log Scale">
</form>

Now in Javascript you can get all the elements of main form in v() with the help of getElementsByTagName(). To know whether the checkbox is checked or not

function v(){
var check = document.getElementsByTagName("input");


for (var i=0; i < check.length; i++) {
if (check[i].type == 'checkbox') {
if (check[i].checked == true) {


x[i]=check[i].value
}
}
}
console.log(x);
}

<form id='myForm'>
<input type="button" name="first_btn" id="first_btn">
<input type="button" name="second_btn" id="second_btn">
</form>


<script>


$('#first_btn').click(function(){
var form = document.getElementById("myForm")
form.action = "https://foo.com";
form.submit();
});


$('#second_btn').click(function(){
var form = document.getElementById("myForm")
form.action = "http://bar.com";
form.submit();
});


</script>

It is do-able on the server side.

<button type="submit" name="signin" value="email_signin" action="/signin">Sign In</button>
<button type="submit" name="signin" value="facebook_signin"  action="/facebook_login">Facebook</button>

and in my node server side script

app.post('/', function(req, res) {
if(req.body.signin == "email_signin"){
function(email_login) {...}
}
if(req.body.signin == "fb_signin"){
function(fb_login) {...}




}
});

This might help someone:

Use the formtarget attribute

<html>
<body>
<form>
<!--submit on a new window-->
<input type="submit" formatarget="_blank" value="Submit to first" />
<!--submit on the same window-->
<input type="submit" formaction="_self" value="Submit to second" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

e.submitEvent.originalEvent.submitter.value

if you use event of form