Below you can find the democode for submitting a form from an hyperlink.
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JavaScript:

$(document).ready(function() {

$('#addusertorunningform').ajaxForm({

target: '#add_user_to_running_status',

success: function() {

document.getElementById('add_user_to_running_status').style.display = 'block';}

});

 

$('a#submit_form').click(function() {

$("#addusertorunningform").submit();

});

 

});

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HTML:

<div id="add_user_to_running_status">; <form id="addusertorunningform" action="http://domain.com/ajax/comment.php" name="addusertorunningform" method="post"> <input name="maptolink1" id="maptolink1" value="&lt;? print $mapid; ?&gt;" type="hidden" /> <a href="#" id="submit_form">test</a>

</form></div>

When you click on the link to # with the id "submit_form" it will [...]