How to submit form without redirecting to its action page?

Question

I have a form in my HTML which it redirects to another site, but I don't want it to go to that action page but instead I just want to display something.

I tried putting a javascript onclick as redirect() and still it's not working

<form id="gform" method="POST" class="pure-form pure-form-stacked" data-email="myEmail@gmail.org"
            action="https://script.google.com/a/symposium.co/macros/s/sdkhkjhKJDFHEfskhdFFDfsEFSEsxvbTj/exec">

...........

 <button class="btn btn-success btn-block" onclick="redirect()" required>Send Report</button>

        </form>

Possible duplicate of [How to submit html form without redirection?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25983603/how-to-submit-html-form-without-redirection) — entpnerd, Jul 09 '19 at 23:49
Good chance you will need to use a proxy to submit to remote site using ajax if it is not CORS enabled — charlietfl, Jul 09 '19 at 23:54
`https://script.google.com/a/symposium.co/macros/s/sdkhkjhKJDFHEfskhdFFDfsEFSEsxvbTj/exec` gives me page not found. — StackSlave, Jul 10 '19 at 00:05
I just edited its link for privacy purposes,, but it's working. My only problem is that I dont want to go to that page after clicking submit. — Chervin Tanilon, Jul 10 '19 at 00:08
Don't use a form or `eventObject.preventDefault()` within your onclick function. By the way you should separate your JavaScript from your HTML. Also, just submitting a form to another site is not testing for a result. Use AJAX. Might as well use their [API](https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/reference/). — StackSlave, Jul 10 '19 at 00:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '19 at 00:58

You could use onsubmit and event.preventDefault(); on form:

<form onsubmit="event.preventDefault(); doSomething()">
    ...
    <input type="submit" value="Confirm">
</form>

and JavaScript:

<script type="text/javascript">
function doSomething() {
    //AJAX request...
}
</script>

How to submit form without redirecting to its action page?

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