If you want to do this jQuery-correct way, you should call $(form.classOfForm).submit(); This allows to prevent the default form submit if wanted (e.g. for validations):

http://api.jquery.com/submit/

@test success
Needs also the same mods in the compressed file!

Test instructions:
Apply patch
Enable debug
Open /administrator/components/com_content/views/article/tmpl/edit.php
and insert

JFactory::getDocument()->addScriptDeclaration('
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    jQuery("#item-form").bind("submit", function() {
        console.log("works");
    });
});
');

just before ? > at around line 75

Try to create (save) an article, you should get in browsers log works

@fredden Can you update the code as it says that there are conflicts?
Also can you apply the mod to the compressed file?

Okay, I've updated this pull request. Hopefully that's the correct procedure.
I've not tested this on a real site, but the Travis CI build passed.

This form.classOfForm doesn’t work. Sorry I should have comment on that before, as I tried that recommendation but I forgot to write about it!

Thanks. Ideally I'd have tested before committing. Updated per your example @dgt41, still untested by me.

@Fedik @Anibalsanchez can you take a look at this one?
@beat did you mean something like this:

        var formClass = jQuery(form).attr("class");
        jQuery(form, "."+formClass).submit();

?

in theory should be enough just jQuery(form).submit() or jQuery(form).trigger('submit');.
I do not know what the reason to use some tricky formClass, the form could be without any class

@Fedik This works with no problems for me as well, but @beat mentioned that an extra class selector should be in place. I think this is not necessary as we are triggering the event for a specific object, so I don’t see how this can conflict somehow with, lets say another form in the page...

well, I do not see info that can confirm it on http://api.jquery.com/submit/
quick test show that it will not work, and form will be submitted when you trigger submit event on form element ... unless I missed something

This allows to prevent the default form submit if wanted

That was the exact reason @beat mentioned in the comment above, but I am not sure what he means or how this can be tested!

This allows to prevent the default form submit if wanted

this do not prevent, just try

Maybe something like this can only trigger, and then submit by form.submit():

if(jquery){
  jQuery(form).submit(function (event) {
    event.preventDefault();
  });
  jQuery(form).submit();
}
form.submit()

but I do not see much sense it this

I concur, no need of tricky formClass. Besides, I could have to add more classes.

So @Fedik @anibalsanchez @beat we all agree that this formClass is not needed?
@fredden Can I ask you to revert this without my and @beat ’s suggestion?

@Fedik @anibalsanchez can you test it? @fredden reverted to the original jQuery(form).submit();

test works good for me

RTC based on testing Thanks!

@mbabker It seems that the solution provided here doesn’t work for all cases e.g. #6207 (last comments)
Do we need a new PR to change it to jQuery(form).trigger("submit"); or this can be done here?

Do it as a PR please. I manually merged this one due to conflicts and had to triple check myself when merging the compressed file changes; at least a PR (hopefully) has the right changes

ok will do that