jQuery Mobile button won't submit form

Experts,
MVC 4; jquery mobile

My save button won't submit the form. If I click in a text box and hit enter all is well. There is much chatter about this and I've tried some fixes like replacing the # with %23 but no luck

Here is the submit button and associated script

@section scripts
{
    <script type="text/javascript">
       
        function submitForm() {

            if (document.forms.length) {
                document.forms[0].action = "/RaceData/Edit/@Model.raceNotesId"
                document.forms[0].submit();
            }

            return true;
        }
             
    </script>
}




@section Header
{
    <a href="/Home/" data-icon="back" data-rel="back">Cancel</a>
     <a href="#"  onclick="submitForm();" data-icon="check">Save</a>
    
    <h3>@ViewBag.Title</h3>
    
}

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Here's the entire page

@{
 ViewBag.Title = "Edit Race Notes";
Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}
@model KartNotes.Models.RaceNotes

@section scripts
{
    <script type="text/javascript">
       
        function submitForm() {

            if (document.forms.length) {
                document.forms[0].action = "/RaceData/Edit/@Model.raceNotesId"
                document.forms[0].submit();
            }

            return true;
        }
             
    </script>
}




@section Header
{
    <a href="/Home/" data-icon="back" data-rel="back">Cancel</a>
     <a href="#"  onclick="submitForm();" data-icon="check">Save</a>
    
    <h3>@ViewBag.Title</h3>
    
}

<form method="post" >
    <div data-role="fieldcontain">
        
          

                 
      
               <textarea  id="raceNotes" name="raceNotes" placeholder="raceNotes"  >@Model.raceNotes</textarea>
                  <!--<input type="text" style="height:100px;" name="raceNotes" id="raceNotes" value="@Model.raceNotes" placeholder="raceNotes" />-->
                
            <label for="raceNotes">Notes</label>

        <input type="text"  name="raceDate" id="raceDate" value="@Model.raceDate" placeholder="raceDate" />
                 <label for="raceDate">Race Date</label>

                
 
       
             </div>
   
    </form>

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