- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:24:00 +0100
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:21:17 +0100, Alan Plum <html5 at alanplum.com> wrote: > is there any official recommendation for which element to use for form > submission buttons? > > Historically, input has been preferred because of button's > implementation differences in IE6. Now that IE6 support is becoming less > and less of an issue for many websites, that argument is loosing > importance and I've actually heard web design schools recommend using > buttons instead. > > The "HTML5" spec doesn't seem to cover this issue at all. The WHAT WG > HTML 5 spec's commenting tool uses input (type=button no less!), which > indicates a certain preference, but again it's not clear whether this > can be regarded as authoritative. > > Any input? Both are fine. > PS: Yes, that was a horrible pun. Heh, I missed it initially. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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