Re: Re: Best way to test for form submission?

On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 11:39 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 4:32 PM +0100 8/28/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > > > >I have noticed a bug with using a form element named action, which > >funnily enough only effects IE. If you need to do anything to or based > >on that action element in IE with Javascript, it has a lot of problems > >differentiating the form element from the form action attribute, and > >gets them a bit confused. It's similar to the IE name/id bug. > > > >Thanks, > >Ash > > Good catch. > > I actually never use the word $action -- that's just a placeholder. > > Cheers, > > tedd > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com > http://ancientstones.com > http://earthstones.com > I seem to always use the word! *smacks self on wrist* When I first came across it, it confused the hell out of me! Always running into these kinds of Javascript bugs in IE, it has a much narrower field of 'safe' variable names, probably because of all the dithering about it's done in the past. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk