A lot of sites use javascript to submit multiple forms

Can you site an example of a site that does this? (I'm not denying it -- I've seen all sorts of weird things done with scripts that ought not to be possible. I'm just curious how it's accomplished, given that normally the submission of a form causes the browser to stop executing the scripts on that page as it goes on to fetch the new form-result page.)

Basically, if you use a <form NAME="foo"> tag in the forms declaration you can use:

document.foo.submit();

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To submit a form. Most of the time this is used to create hyperlinks which submit a form, or forms that submit themselves if you click on a select box, for instance. However, it can be extended by creating a class of functions to submit multiple forms at the same time. I don't have any examples off the top of my head, but if I come across one I will be sure to post it.

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In reply to Re: Re: LWP multi-form POST by Vautrin
in thread LWP multi-form POST by jagb

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