Weirdness when trying to use javascript to submit a button on a jsf page

Question

code in question:
document.forms['logoutForm'].elements['logoutForm:_id7'].click();
alert("button clicked");
This works fine as is, the form gets submitted. I have to use this because there are multiple submits in this form for different things. Edit: What I mean is that I am submitting if the user presses the enter key from a text input and since I have multiple submits, I have to choose a particular one, I can't just use the form.submit() function.
The problem arises if I take out the alert. No alert box, it stops working - no submit. Alert popup included, I get the popup, but the page submits correctly AFTER I close the popup, even though the alert is after the submit in the code.
Anyone know what gives and how I can get the submit to work without the alert?
Message was edited by:
kdavenport
It appears that this might be an IE issue as it works in Firefox. Any thoughts?
Message was edited by:
kdavenport

Answer 1

This reply skirts around your actual question, but perhaps it may be useful for your situation. This link describes a JSF component that allows you to define the default action for your page, that is, the one that gets submitted when the Enter key is pressed:
http://www.jsftutorials.net/defaultActionTag.html
Note that you will see some warnings flash across the console when this component loads on the page (if you're monitoring that). As I understand it, this is because no renderer is specifically assigned for this component. Your default renderer will kindly do the job, but you'll still see the warning in development. It's nothing to worry about.