RE: button tag

I'd think the most sensible approach would be to actually split up the form into a multi-page process, rather than having automatically submitting scripts and such.

Patrick
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Patrick H. Lauke
Webmaster / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Fernando Llana Díaz [mailto:llana@sip.ucm.es]
> Sent: 29 November 2004 12:02
> To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Subject: button tag
> 
> 
> Hello,
>   I have to make a form where some input controls should send
> the form when their contents is changed. It is easely done with 
> javascript, but in orden to make it accesible I am considering to
> attach a button to each of these "auto-submuit" input controls.
> 
>   The form runs correctly in any browser but internet explorer.
> I do not know if this is a bug of IE or it is an incorrect 
> interpretation 
> of the recomendations. The problem can be summarized as 
> follows, consider
> the following form:
> 
>     <form action="pr.php" method="get">
>       <p>
>  <button type="submit" name="one" value="one">First button</button>
>  <button type="submit" name="two" value="two">Second button</button>
>  <button type="submit" name="three" value="three">Third 
> button</button>
>       </p>
>     </form>
> 
> I think that the server recives only the value ("one", "two" 
> or "three") 
> corresponding with the pushed button, that is what mozilla, 
> opera and lynx 
> do. But IE6 send the value of all buttons and the value that 
> send is the
> button contens ("First button", "Second button" AND "Third button").
> You can prove the form in
> http://antares.sip.ucm.es/~luis/pr.php
> 
> Pleas, could anyone indicate me what is the correct interpretation.
> 
> Luis Llana.
> 
> -- 
> http://antares.sip.ucm.es/~luis
>

Received on Monday, 29 November 2004 13:27:06 UTC