<button> element

• From: Richard Lewis <richard.lewis@uea.ac.uk>
• Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:50:32 +0100
• To: www-html@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200404211050.32873.richard.lewis@uea.ac.uk>

Hi there,

I've been trying to use the HTML <button> element with some PHP scripts like 
this:

<form method="post" ...>
	<!-- content -->
	<button type="submit" name="submit" value="edit">Edit Item</button>
	<button type="submit" name="submit" value="del">Delete Item</button>
</form>

and I've been experiencing some problems.

When the form is submitted the receiving script can query the posted value of 
'submit' and retrieve the value of the 'value' attribute of  whichever submit 
button was pressed. This works fine in the case of such browsers as 
Konqueror, Mozilla and Lynx. However, MSIE only returns the *content* of one 
of the <button> elements (and always the same one, no matter which was used 
to submit the form), not the 'value'.

Which browser is exhibiting the correct behaviour?

Cheers,
Richard

Received on Wednesday, 21 April 2004 05:58:21 UTC