Re: IE Problem Detecting Post Variables

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Micah Gersten <micah@onshore.com> wrote: > You might want to consider the button element which allows you to > display images, but doesn't send back coordinates. Instead it sends a > preset value. > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.5 > > Thank you, > Micah Gersten > onShore Networks > Internal Developer > http://www.onshore.com If you mean an INPUT element with the type="button", then yes. (Although it will no longer be a submit button, so you'll have to capture the click and perform the submit using Javascript which leads back to accessibility issues, etc.) If you mean a BUTTON element of the type="submit", then not exactly. It *will* send a preset value for sure, but that preset value will differ depending on the browser. I've found that while FF will send the value you set in the value="..." attribute, IE will send the actual text of the button. Thus, <button name="test" value="blue">My Button Text</button> will send 'test=blue' in FF, but 'test=My+Button+Text' in IE. I'm assuming this is because for <INPUT type="submit"> buttons, the text content of the button IS the value in the value="..." attribute. Whatever the reason, that was a fun lesson to track down the first time I had people tell me a page I wrote didn't work in IE. Andrew