Let me try to interprete this
Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) wrote:
I did some more tests which lead to this matrix:
works with JavaScript
disabled enabled
a) button/link is embedded in a form
htmlCommand false true
html command triggers a javascript if embedded in a form tag
htmlButton true true
html button just issues a submit
b) button/link is NOT embedded in a form
htmlCommand true true
here the command is rendered as a link only
htmlButton false false
here it is rendered as a button only therefore does nothing
neither redirect (in the nav-outcome) nor immediate hava an influence.
So the only difference is the form in which the commandlink is
embedded...
Well makes perfect sense in the scope of html.
Html command renders basically into <a href....
html command button basically renders into a <input type whatever...
according to this matrix.
To my knowledge, correct me if I am wrong, you only can issue a submit
in a decent manner from a href within a form by triggering a javascript
event method which does the submit on the form.
Buttons can issue automatically submits by being the type submit.
Therefore this behavior looks weird at the first sight, but is totally
understandable if you go down on html level.
You might be able to bypass the problem by writing a renderer
for your command links which render into input type submit, you you
encounter that you are in a form...
I hope I am not to wrong in my interpretation of this.
Werner
