onchange and submit() weirdness

Anon

It took me a while to track down why I was getting javascript errors with a onchange event. The error said that the object didn't support the method or propert.

Here's an example of the problem

<body>
<form method="post" action="<? echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" name="books">

<TABLE>
<tr>
<td width="80%" colspan="2"><div align="right"><p class="BOLD">Choose your country:</td>
<td width="20%" valign="middle" align="center">

	  <select name="shipcountry" onchange="document.books.submit()" size="1">
        <option value="United States" SELECTED >United States</option> 
        <option value="Canada/Mexico"  >Canada/Mexico</option>
        <option value="Elsewhere"  >Elsewhere</option>
      </select></td>
    </tr>
	<TR>
<TD>
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit">

</TD>
</TR>

<? echo "You said ".$shipcountry; ?>
</TABLE>
</form>

</body>

and the answer is not nameing the submit button "submit". Name it something else. I have looked for other people falling prey to this. Maybe its a browser specific issue? I have only tested it under IE5.0.

Mike

matto

same thing happens under 6.0!
in my javascript reference (selfhtml v.8), "submit" is not noted as a reserved word but obviously ...! really strange.