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Persuading IE to do the right think with Steve Swift 12-09-2007
Posted by Steve Swift on December 9, 2007, 1:30 am
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 Faced with:
<BUTTON NAME=ORDER VALUE=1 TYPE=SUBMIT>Order</BUTTON>
Internet explorer sends "ORDER=Order" rather than "ORDER=1".

Is there any way to persuade it to do what was intended, to submit the
actual VALUE of the button rather than its caption?

Is there any HTML proposal to add add an extra parameter to the <SUBMIT>
control (something like USEVALUE) so that IE would have to implement it
properly, and we could write sensible CGI scripts?

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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on December 9, 2007, 4:48 am
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 Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Steve Swift

> Faced with:
><BUTTON NAME=ORDER VALUE=1 TYPE=SUBMIT>Order</BUTTON>
> Internet explorer sends "ORDER=Order" rather than "ORDER=1".
>
> Is there any way to persuade it to do what was intended, to submit the
> actual VALUE of the button rather than its caption?
>
> Is there any HTML proposal to add add an extra parameter to the
<SUBMIT>
> control (something like USEVALUE) so that IE would have to implement
it
> properly, and we could write sensible CGI scripts?
>

It's a known bug in IE. The only thing you could do is use javascript,
but then you could still have a user with js turned off submit an
incorrect value.

You could assign a name attribute to input type="submit", eg: <input
type="submit" name="1" value="Submit"> or you could put the value in a
type="hidden" input element.

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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on December 9, 2007, 4:59 am
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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Adrienne Boswell
69.28.186.121:

> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Steve Swift
>
>> Faced with:
>><BUTTON NAME=ORDER VALUE=1 TYPE=SUBMIT>Order</BUTTON>
>> Internet explorer sends "ORDER=Order" rather than "ORDER=1".
>>
>> Is there any way to persuade it to do what was intended, to submit
the
>> actual VALUE of the button rather than its caption?
>>
>> Is there any HTML proposal to add add an extra parameter to the
><SUBMIT>
>> control (something like USEVALUE) so that IE would have to implement
> it
>> properly, and we could write sensible CGI scripts?
>>
>
> It's a known bug in IE. The only thing you could do is use
javascript,
> but then you could still have a user with js turned off submit an
> incorrect value.
>
> You could assign a name attribute to input type="submit", eg: <input
> type="submit" name="1" value="Submit"> or you could put the value in a
> type="hidden" input element.
>

In addition:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535211.aspx and


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Posted by Steve Swift on December 9, 2007, 2:10 pm
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Adrienne Boswell wrote:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535211.aspx and

Wow! They even have the gall to document that it works incorrectly.

My form has a couple of INPUT TYPE=TEXT fields and several INPUT
TYPE=SUBMIT buttons, so I need both the name and the value to make sense
of which button the user pressed. In most cases I can encode both the
name and the value in just the name, as in NAME="DELETE.document_1.txt"
and that gives me a consistent interface for my CGI scripts across
browsers. It's a little cumbersome though.

Thanks for the information.

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Posted by Steve Swift on December 10, 2007, 1:44 am
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> In addition:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535211.aspx and

Several hours later I got to pondering: I wonder if any one at all finds
the inner html useful when returned where the VALUE= should be expected?

Even amongst web developers at Microsoft.

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