Re: Button id's - firefox and IE different ?

Peter Ford wrote: > Angus Mann wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I want to have several delete buttons with just one form, and depending on which button is >> pressed, one of several items is deleted. >> >> So I need multiple submit buttons for 1 form, each displaying the same text >> "Delete" to the user, but each with a different "value" so the PHP script can >> tell them apart. >> >> I've used this code for the buttons... >> <center><button type="submit" name="btid" >> value="1">Delete</center> >> <center><button type="submit" name="btid" >> value="2">Delete</center> >> <center><button type="submit" name="btid" >> value="3">Delete</center> >> >> And it works just fine with firefox. But IE does not seem to pass the value back to the >> btid so when the script asks >> if $_POST['btid'] == "1" { >> } >> >> the value 1, 2, or 3 is not given back to PHP by IE. It is given back correctly by firefox >> and works fine. >> >> Any suggestions ? >> >> Thanks. >> >> > > Well, to answer your initial question, IE won't play like that - it uses the > content of the button as the value and no amount of telling it is going to > change that at present... I suspect this behaviour is one of those things that > is ambiguously specified by the standards. > > The real question is ... why do you want to do that (tell the buttons apart, I > mean)? From a user's perspective, if they are labelled the same, and in the same > form, then surely they must do the same thing? Sounds like the form design needs > to fresh thought. > > If you must do it like you this, you need to change the labels on the buttons, > but remember: when you come to internationalize your site with twenty-six > different languages then you'll have to check each possible translation in the > back-end code. And if you decide to put images on the buttons instead of words > then you are really up the creek... > > Either: split the form up so that different delete buttons act on their > respective bits of the form. > Or: bite the bullet and use javascript onclick events to set a hidden field > which signals what the action is supposed to be in the back end. > There's a third option: make sure your clients only use Firefox :) -- Peter Ford phone: 01580 893333 Developer fax: 01580 893399 Justcroft International Ltd., Staplehurst, Kent