Whats the difference between onclick and onsubmit?

Question

It\'s not like I haven\'t googled it... But still I couldn\'t understand when onsubmit is used and when onclick is used?

Answer 1

They're two completely separate events.

onclick events fire when the user uses the mouse to click on something.

onsubmit events fire when a form is submitted. The origin of this event can sometimes be traced back to an onclick (like clicking the "submit" button) but it can also come from a keyboard event (like pressing enter).

This implies that using onclick on a submit button on a form might miss some cases that an onsubmit on the form would catch.

There are many other kinds of events such as: onload for loading resources such as scripts or images and onkeydown for detecting key presses on the keyboard.