richyrich

I had an issue in Firefox where I wanted a <button> element to fire a Javascript function onclick.

However, I found in Firefox that the button also performed a submit on the form, which I didn't want.

After a little investigation I discovered that the default type for a button element is submit. Apparently a bug in IE prevents it from firing.

So, how to fix?

Add a type="button" property to your <button> element

Code:

<button id="button1" type="button" onclick="JS_Function()">Click</button>

I would also include return false as the last line of your JS function, just to be on the safe side.