I guess it depends on the scenario. I've never had a need for multiple
submit buttons. I usually have one "Submit" or "Save" button and use
other form elements like check boxes or radio buttons to tell the
script how to process the form. There's a million ways to do anything
on the web, and if it's valid, I say why not.


On Jan 19, 10:58 am, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Could you please say more about this? I use multiple submit buttons  
> **all** the time. The only submit button that arrives at the form  
> controller is the one that was pressed. Depending on the value of the  
> submit button, the form controller takes different action:
>
> <form action="" method="post">
>         <input type="hidden" name="user_id" value="123" />
>         <input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="Pete" />
>         <input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" value="123 456-7890" />
>         <input type="submit" name="update" id="update" value="Update" />
>         <input type="submit" name="duplicate" id="duplicate"  
> value="Duplicate" />
> </form>
>
> It wouldn't matter one whit if those submit buttons were images or  
> vanilla submits as long as they were named and IDd uniquely.
>
> Walter
>
> On Jan 18, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Pete Brown wrote:
>
> > t seems like it would be bad practice to use more
> > than one submit button for a form.
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