19125 2012-09-28 17:48:57 +0000 Form "submit" event should bubble. 2012-12-30 12:05:32 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified All All RESOLVED FIXED needs test P2 minor Unsorted 1 yonathan ian ian mike Ms2ger contributor oldest_to_newest 74819 0 yonathan 2012-09-28 17:48:57 +0000 In the form submission algorithm[1], the event step should be, "fire a simple event that **bubbles and** is cancelable named submit" The event bubbles according to DOM 2 Events[2], and this is consistent with all the browsers I tested (Chrome, Firefox, Opera)[3]. [1]: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#form-submission-algorithm [2]: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-eventgroupings-htmlevents-h3 [3]: http://jsfiddle.net/yonran/WanrL/embedded/result/ 74886 1 yonathan 2012-09-29 16:08:46 +0000 The submit and reset events actually don’t bubble in IE 8 or below according to quirksmode[1], and jQuery 1.4+ attaches click and keypress listeners to be simulate bubbling submit events. So the spec is currently descriptive of IE 8 but probably should proscribe the bubbling behavior. [1]: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/events/submit.html 80696 2 ian 2012-12-30 03:37:06 +0000 Thanks! 80697 3 contributor 2012-12-30 03:38:28 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r7609. Check-in comment: Mostly, browsers seem to make these events bubble. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7608&to=7609