Beginner question: form submit

[soup_or_power@yahoo.com]

My form looks as follows. Why isn't the function Validate called when
the function test is called? Thanks for your help!!

function Validate()
{
alert("in validate");
}

function test()
{
//do something
document.forms[0].submit;
}
<FORM method="POST" onsubmit="retur n Validate()">
....
<input type=text value="xyz" onclick="test() ">
</FORM>

[LV_Indy]

Re: Beginner question: form submit

Because you aren't calling submit as a function:

document.forms[0].submit();

You are basically asking if submit exists, which is does. But you are
doing nothing with it, so nothing's happening.

[soup_or_power@yahoo.com]

Re: Beginner question: form submit

The lack of paranetheses was my typo. Thanks for your reply.