form submit by name not working

Question

i want to submit nested form but i am facing two different behaviors like like if submit by index then working fine but if submit by name the parent form submiting.

    <form name="form1" action="/action_page.php">
      First name:<br>
      <input type="text" name="firstname" value="Mickey">
      <br>
      Last name:<br>
      <input type="text" name="lastname" value="Mouse">
      <br><br>
      <input type="submit" value="Submit">
          <form name="form2" action="/action_page.php">
          First name:<br>
          <input type="text" name="firstname" value="Mickey">
          <br>
          Last name:<br>
          <input type="text" name="lastname" value="Mouse">
          <br><br>
          <input type="submit" value="Submit">
        </form> 
    </form>

This is working

$('form')[1].submit();

Not working

$("form[name='form2']").submit(); // submit form1 instead

@sal *Nested form submit is not allowed!* That's all I know! — Pedram, Jun 09 '18 at 11:07
how is possible i used **$('form')[1].submit();** its working. — shaair, Jun 09 '18 at 11:08
@sal because it is parent not child. It's invalid `html` too. why don't use separate form? — Pedram, Jun 09 '18 at 11:09
@Pedram actually i am working in mvc razor view so dynamically creating forms for specific functionality. — shaair, Jun 09 '18 at 11:11
@sal I still believe you can create separate `form` even dynamically, no matter `mvc` or something else, I'm not expert in `razor` But there must be a way. — Pedram, Jun 09 '18 at 11:18
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/172809/discussion-between-sal-and-pedram). — shaair, Jun 09 '18 at 11:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 09 '18 at 11:14

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just researched myself, it seems you can't nest forms. Can you nest html forms?

My solution would be to make two different forms or create them dynamically and append to the previous one.

answered Jun 09 '18 at 11:14

Mario

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thanks men. but question still here that why it allow to submit by index? – shaair Jun 09 '18 at 11:17
it's the parent form. as @pedram said. – Mario Jun 09 '18 at 11:18
it's a form in a form, according to your code example, which means it's nested. – Mario Jun 09 '18 at 11:21

form submit by name not working

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