Re: Re: <button> tag

Hello Richard, Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 9:55:15 AM, you wrote: RL> Acutally, I've just worked out why its not working: Other than it not being valid HTML you mean? :) RL> I have multiple <button> tags on the same page which all do different things RL> (edit/delete/new...). They are all called 'submit' (name='submit') and RL> have RL> different 'value' values in order that the receiving script may distinguish RL> between them: RL> <button name='submit' value='edit'>Edit Item</button> RL> <button name='submit' value='delete'>Delete Item</button> RL> It seems that MSIE doesn't send the value of 'value' when the form is RL> posted. In all fairness to IE, it WILL send the value of each button - but PHP cannot distinguish between them all because you have given them all the same name! :) RL> Does <input type='submit'...> allow this sort of functionality? If it has a unique name, sure: <input type="submit" name="something-unique"> Alternatively, if you need loads of buttons on a page, just use: <input type="button" name="something-unique" ... > -- Best regards, Richard Davey http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html