HTML forms that submit to another action

October 13, 2020

I've known for a long time that you can submit values with submit buttons so you can track which button was used to submit the form e.g.

<form action="/location1">
  <input type="submit" value="Create">
  <input type="submit" value="Create and redirect">
</form>

However, today I needed to actually submit the form to a completely differnt action. Turns out you can do this with formaction attributes

<form action="/location1">
  <input type="submit" value="Create">
  <input type="submit" value="Submit to location 2" formaction="/location2">
</form>

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