The formaction attribute

Though the primary method of specifying a form element’s submission URL is via its action attribute, a submit button may specify an alternate action to submit to via its formaction attribute. This is useful because often a form will contain more than one button and it is advantageous to be able to specify a different submission URL for each button.

Syntax:

<input type="submit" value="Search" formaction="/search.php" />

<button formaction="http://example.com/search.php">Search</button>

Elements:

<input />, types: submit and image
<button>

NOTE: The specified formaction URL may be either an absolute or relative path.

Example

Example with the formaction attribute:

<?php $answer = 0; ?>
<html>
<body>

<form action="../../../img/tutorials/form_attribute3_html5.php" method="get">
    <p>
        <label for="name">Name:</label>
        <input type="text" id="name" name="name" value="John" />
    </p>
    <p>
        <input type="submit" value="Update" name="update" />
    or
        <input type="submit" value="Delete" formaction="../../../img/tutorials/html5_formaction.php" name="delete" />
    </p>
</form>

<p id="answer"><?php echo $answer; ?></p>

</body>
</html>

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The formaction attribute

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Example

Example with the formaction attribute:

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