Submitting IE form with javascript submit button

[furrycow]

Man oh man, i have tried absolutly everything i can think of to try and submit this form, but i have not suceeded...i have looked through countless forum posts and used dales debugbar, but have got nothing as to why it is not submitting.

Here is the html for the form i want to submit...

<form id="inviteForm" action="/process_invites">
                            <div class="inviteFieldBKG">
                                <div class="inviteField">
                                  <textarea id="emails" name="emails" rows="3" cols="10">Insert email addresses separated by commas</textarea>
                                </div>
                                <div class="inviteField" style="margin-top:8px;">

                                  <textarea id="message" name="message" rows="3" cols="10">Write a personal message to your friends HERE</textarea>
                                </div>                       
                            </div>
                            
                            <div id="sendInvite" class="left">
                                <a onblur="document.getElementById('sendInviteSucces').style.display='none';" href="javascript:void(0);"><img src="http://static.lockerz.com/sites/default/themes/sky/assets/img/connect/btn-invite.png" alt="Invite Button" width="74" height="31" id="inviteBTN" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('inviteBTN','','http://static.lockerz.com/sites/default/themes/sky/assets/img/connect/btn-invite-over.png',1)" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" style="margin-left:7px; margin-top:7px; float:left;" /></a>
                                <img id="sendInviteSucces" style="display:none; margin-top: 7px;" src='http://static.lockerz.com/sites/default/themes/sky/assets/img/connect/msg-success.png' width='119' height='31' alt='Successfully Sent' />
                                <img id="iconerror" src="http://static.lockerz.com/sites/default/themes/sky/assets/img/connect/icon-Error.png" width="35" height="24" alt="Error" />
                                <div id="errorOuter">
                                    <div id="errorMiddle">

                                        <div id="errorInner"></div>
                                    </div>
                                </div>
                            </div>
                            
                        </form>

The html above contains two textboxes; "emails" and "message", of which i can fill in both easily with...

$oFormINVITE = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 0)
    $oElementINVITE = _IEFormElementGetCollection($oFormINVITE)
    $oElementEmailsINVITE = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oElementINVITE, "emails")
    $oElementMessageINVITE = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oElementINVITE, "message")

    _IEFormElementSetValue($oElementEmailsINVITE, $EmailAddress)
    _IEFormElementSetValue($oElementMessageINVITE, "Thanks!")

However, it comes to submitting and i have tried all these methods...

_IEFormSubmit($oFormINVITE)

$oImageClick=_IEImgClick($oIE,"Invite Button","alt")

$oImageClick=_IEImgClick($oIE,"http://static.lockerz.com/sites/default/themes/sky/assets/img/connect/btn-invite.png")

$oImageINVITE1=_IEGetObjById ($oIE, "inviteBTN")
$oImageClick=_IEAction ($oImageINVITE1, "click" )

_IENavigate($oIE,"javascript:void(0);")

None of which worked, i also tried ControlSend, after having a cheeky look at the help file under _IEAction(), but was unable to make that work...although i am pretty sure that is the way forward...if anyone has ANY ideas, i would be extremely grateful!!

Thanks in advance

Edited November 1, 2009 by furrycow

[Bert]

All else fails, set focus to the control that is right in front of the one you want in the tab list. Set focus to it, then tab to get to the control. Once there, use "Send".

It's messy, but it will work.

[EscapeTheFate]

I'm having almost the exact same issue on a different site, any luck?

[DaleHohm]

Your invite image has an Id of "inviteBTN". Take a look for other Javascript on the page (typically in the HEAD section) that references it - most likely defining an onclick event.

Dale