Michael McGrady wrote the following on 10/10/2004 10:09 PM:
I do wonder in this case, however, whether you use buttons or rely on the auto-gui, why use "button" rather than "submit", if you want to submit? I might also say, that is what submit buttons are for. I assume, however, that there is a reason to use <input type='button'> rather than <input type='submit'> and would like to understand that. I have an old prejudice against JavaScript which may be partly irrational.
Actually I'm pretty sure using an html submit button would work as well for handling onClick events that don't actually submit a form. Using the html button though seems to make sense though just so that the page author can see that's it's not actually being used to submit a form.
For example on this last application I worked on one of the requirements was that the client wanted buttons signify something you can 'do' versus having html links. So for example maybe you were on a page that displayed a list of employees and next to each employee there would be a button "edit employee" - this would be a case where we used html buttons that had an onClick handler that went to a new url. (there were a few other buttons also on the page). So for example a line might look like...
<c:url var="url" scope="page" value="/editEmployee.do">
<c:param name="dispatch" value="setUp"/>
<c:param name="associateID" value="${associate.associateID}"/>
</c:url>
<input type="button" onClick="goLink('${url}');" value="<fmt:message key='label.edit'/>
//also may be buttons for "summary" "logs" etc on each row
You really wouldn't want a form to surround the whole employees list since each button is sumbitting to a totally a different action
You could also use the <button ...> tag. ( I believe you have more html styling controlling using <button > although I've found <input type="button" suitable for my needs. )
By the way, a great site for all the HTML and CSS properties:
html http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagindex/all.htm css http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/propindex/all.htm
-- Rick
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