Is it a good practice to use an empty URL for a HTML form's action attribute? (action=“”)

Question

I am wondering if anyone can give a \"best practices\" response to using blank HTML form actions to post back to the current page.

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Answer 1

IN HTML 5 action="" IS NOT SUPPORTED SO DON'T DO THIS. BAD PRACTICE.

If instead you completely negate action altogether it will submit to the same page by default, I believe this is the best practice:

This will submit to the current page

If you are sumbitting the form using php you may want to consider the following. read more about it here.

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Alternatively you could use # bear in mind though that this will act like an anchor and scroll to the top of the page.