I sent a couple of additional comments on this to Frank; I guess I should have paid more attention so they made it to the list, too. I won't belabor the points too much, but if you're interested in this question, section 17.13.2 "Successful Controls" (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.2) specifies which controls are submitted to the server with a form. It clearly specifies that "only the activated button is successful".
There are two different ways to tag a "submit button". The most common way is <input type="submit">. The less common way is <button type="submit">. According to the HTML DTD, <input> is an empty element, but <button> allows almost any HTML element, except for links or other form controls. On 6/28/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/28/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm curious though... I'm looking at the 4.01 spec now and I don't see > > anyplace that says the non-clicked button shouldn't be submitted... I > > would actually expect it to work like any other form element in that they > > all get submitted regardless (although I do see the logic in your > > expectation). > > I don't know about just buttons, but submit buttons are sent only in > quantity of one: the one which was clicked. Also, wnen I tested my > dispatch action, I saw that if no buttons clicked, then browser still > sends one, that was defined first. > > > The point about the value being submitted seems more of an issue to me > > though... that being said, what is happening in IE is pretty clear... > > wrapping text with a <button></button> is overriding the value attribute. > > This makes sense in a way... I've never seen text wrapped with a button > > like that, which doesn't make it wrong or anything of course, just new to > > me. I've only ever seen the value as an attribute. > > Never saw it too, tried it, and it did not work on Firefox. What exactly did you try that did not work on Firefox? <button type="submit" name="foo" value="bar">Some Text</button> will work in Firefox. <input type="submit" name="foo" value="bar">Some Text</input> will not work. (As mentioned above, the DTD specifies <input> as an empty element.) > > > have a different submitted value than what the button actually > > submits. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
