button and IE

[stasJohn]

I hope someone can help explain this behavior to me.

I have a form, two buttons...

<button type="submit" name="submit" value="next">next</button>
<button type="submit" name="submit" value="cancel">cancel</button>


When the form is submitted, IE always returns the value "cancel" regardless of which button was pressed.

I thought I could name them the same and it would work. In fact this does work in all other browsers (mozilla, netscape, opera).

If I give the buttons seperate names, then it works. Does IE not interpret the <Button> element the same as it interprets <Input type="submit">???

Thanks in advance.

 

[mattygriff]

Why would you want to give both buttons the same name when they perform two different tasks?

Anyway, by giving the two buttons the same name, the latter instance over-rides the former - if you switched them round, you'd find that, whichever you pressed, you'd always get the value "next" returned.

Do the easy thing - change the names.

 

[stasJohn]

giving them the same names makes it easier to check which one was pressed.

For instance in php i just use if( isset($_POST['submit']) )
to determine if the form was submitted or first time on the page. Then I check the value of the button clicked to perform the appropriate action. Makes the coding cleaner. Thats just a preference I guess.


Then why, if you use <input type="submit">, IE has no problem with naming them the same name? I'm probably just missing some fundamental html knowledge here.

 

[cLFlaVA]

You're naming two objects the same thing. You'll need to reference them as an array...

Something like:

[tt]$_POST['submit'][0] and $_POST['submit'][1][/tt]

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