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push button ?? Chris Sharman 08-03-2006
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Posted by Chris Sharman on August 3, 2006, 5:50 am
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I found a use for a (push) button the other day - having never wanted it
before. I used button rather than input type=button, because I wanted to
use an image for it.

The html4 spec doesn't say anything explicit, though, about how/whether
it gets submitted with the other 'successful controls'.

In practice, using push buttons within a form, with name and value
attributes, and some content (an image):
Firefox doesn't submit it.
ie6 submits the content (the html image tag), not the value.

I was kind of hoping for the value, since I went to some trouble to set
it within the javascript.

Given that it doesn't seem to do what I want, or anything consistent, in
the popular browsers, I'll find another way of doing it at this point.

However, I did wonder if anyone could clarify the 'correct' behaviour,
whether any browsers implement it, and whether this is a known bug.

Chris

Posted by David Dorward on August 3, 2006, 6:23 am
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Chris Sharman wrote:
> I found a use for a (push) button the other day - having never wanted it
> before. I used button rather than input type=button, because I wanted to
> use an image for it.
>
> The html4 spec doesn't say anything explicit, though, about how/whether
> it gets submitted with the other 'successful controls'.

Well, if it is <button type="submit"> then it should.

> In practice, using push buttons within a form, with name and value
> attributes, and some content (an image):
> Firefox doesn't submit it.
> ie6 submits the content (the html image tag), not the value.

Yes, this is a known bug in IE and the reason the <button> element in
uncommon on the WWW.


Posted by axlq on August 7, 2006, 10:48 am
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>I found a use for a (push) button the other day - having never wanted it
>before. I used button rather than input type=button, because I wanted to
>use an image for it.

I'll sometimes use a text box styled to look like a pushbutton, with
a link in it. Either that or an <input type=submit > button.

-A

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