- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 04 Feb 1997 00:49:41 +0000 (GMT)
- To: philipp@ntex.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, cknight@metricom.com
I've designed a form for administering UNIX accounts that contains text fields for things like: username, password, fullname, and home dir. The shell is a menu, and there are several type=image buttons: [...] The problem is this: the last button always seems to be the default if the operator types ENTER anywhere in the form. Unfortunately, this is seldom the button he wants to type. Typically it is the first. My question then is, how can we either select which button we want ENTER to select, or how do we turn off defaulting all together so that an explicit click is required? I don't think you can: it's a browser implementation problem. You could try an attribute like SELECTED or CHECKED in the relevant INPUT start-tag, just to see if browsers react, but your best bet is to rearrange the image buttons to the order you suspect is the one they want, or (better) don't use images for form submission. ///Peter
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