Button as a hypertext link - formatting problems.

[ajefferies]

This seems like a very simple question. I want to turn a link into a button. The link points to myUrl, where myUrl contains form parameters eg.

http://some.place/page?id=2.

The link:

<br>
<a href=&quot;myUrl&quot;>Go!</a>
<br>

works no problem. My first attempt at a button:

<input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;Go!&quot; onclick=&quot;window.location.href='myUrl';&quot;>

does not display in Netscape because it's not in a form. So I put it in an empty form:

<form>
 <input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;Go!&quot; onclick=&quot;window.location.href='myUrl';&quot;>
</form>

Now I get a big gap (new paragraphs) around the button, which I don't want. So I put it in a table:

<table>
 <tr>
  <td><form><input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;Go!&quot; onclick=&quot;window.location.href='myUrl';&quot;></form></td>
 </tr>
</table>

The gap's still there, so I move the form (to an illegal postion) :

<table>
 <form>
  <tr>
   <td><input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;Go!&quot; onclick=&quot;window.location.href='myUrl';&quot;></td>
  </tr>
 </form>
</table>

The gap's gone from IE, but still there in Netscape. At this point I wonder if I'm barking up the wrong tree. I've also tried the <button>..</button> element, but Netscape doesn't like that...

Can anyone help?

Cheers,
Andy.

 

[zefir]

<a href=&quot;Filename-in-my Folder, not the complete URL&quot;> <IMG SRC=&quot;button.gif&quot; hspace=8> <a> Press this button

This button- a GIF-Image - will be surrounded by a 2-pixel frame (&quot;underline&quot; is valid also for images),
not so recommendable.
Better use ImageMaps.
Refer either to Chuck Musciano: HTML..., O´Reilly
or to an example with source text in

http://www.fho-emden.de/~hoffmann/howww04f.html

G.Hoffmann

 

[zefir]

Top line finished by </a> of course.

 

[ajefferies]

I was hoping not to use graphics: I'd have to update all my buttons to graphics as different platforms render buttons differently, and I'd have to add more javascript to emulate pressing the button.

Cheers,

 

[zefir]

ajefferies: I don´t use Java, simply HTML - here the action on pressing a button is
fully automatical ! Isn´t &quot;my&quot; code rather short - and you can easily get GIF buttons
from someone else.They are NOT rendered different - I check all pages with three
different browsers. ---G.Hoffmann