Form button not working in IE11 - html

Question

I have created a form with a submit button, the submit button is outside the actual form but its targeting the form using the form attribute for example.
<form id="myform">
</form>
<button form="myform"></button>
I apologize for the week example. This is working accross all browsers except IE 11. IE 8-10 is working 100%. Any ideas on how I can fix this. I prefer not writing scripts. I can do this with jQuery but I prefer to just keep it clean if possible

Answer 1

This is a solution with just a click event and a line of css. ( Minimal )
If your button has to be outside the form due to User Interface design.
I would suggest you add an input submit/button inside the form:
<form id="myform">
<input type="button" value="Submit" class="myButton" />
</form>
<button id="outerBtn">Submit</button>
Hide the input:
.myButton {display:none;} OR {visibility:none;}
Use jQuery to trigger click the input button inside the form:
$('#outerBtn').on('click', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$('.myButton').trigger('click');
});
Just some quick answer. Should be alright.
If you do not want to write script, I would suggest you just keep your input button/submit inside the form.

Answer 2

<form id="form-any-name">
<input type="button" value="Submit" class="myButton" />
</form>
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('button[type=\'submit\']').on('click', function() {
$("form[id*='form-']").submit();
});
});
</script>
Simply include document on ready submit catcher you can place that code in main js file since we catching dinamicaly form id starting with form- so in other pages you can have the different foms:)

Answer 3

I would like to post my answer as this post helped me a lot and I came with an idea that works if you want to add the "button outside the form" functionality on older browsers.
I use JQuery but I dont think I would be a major problem to use pure JS as it's not complicated code.
Just create a class just as some of the answers suggested here
.hiddenSubmitButton {
display: none;
}
$("body").on("click", "button[form]", function () {
/*This will get the clicks when make on buttons with form attribute
* it's useful as we commonly use this property when we place buttons that submit forms outside the form itself
*/
let form, formProperty, formAttribute, code, newButtonID;
formProperty = $(this).prop("form");
if (!(formProperty === null || formProperty === "")) {//Most browsers that don't wsupport form property will return null others ""
return; //Browsers that support the form property won't continue
}
formAttribute = $(this).attr("form");
form = $("#" + formAttribute);
newButtonID = formAttribute + "_hiddenButton";
if (document.getElementById(newButtonID) !== null) {
$("#" + newButtonID).click();
return;
}
code = '<input id="' + newButtonID + '" class="hiddenSubmitButton" type="submit" value="Submit" />';
$(form).append(code);
setTimeout(function () {
$("#" + newButtonID).click();
}, 50);
});
One thing I like about creating buttons outside the form is that they allow us to custom the design more easily and we can use this code and it will work on old browsers and also, the browser will use its HTML form validator.

Answer 4

IE understands 'for', you can use "label for=''".
<label for="form_one_submit">Button one</label>
<form action="" id="form_one">
<span></span>
<input type="submit" id="form_one_submit" style="visibility:hidden;">
</form>