Faking a submit button

[Whiteybags]

Hi,
I want to fake a submit button. I have two pages. I want to have a submit button on the first page that when clicked goes to the second page. The submit button doesn't actually have to do anything except go to the next page. Can I do that?
<input type="button" value="Submit" name="Submit" onclick="page2.htm">
Thanks.

 

[BabyJeffy]

Try this instead:

<input type="button" value="Submit" name="Submit" onclick="location.href='page2.htm';">

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Jeff

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[Whiteybags]

Works perfectly now. Thanks a million.

 

[CliveC]

Jeff: Correct me if I am wrong but wouldn't it be better to use:

<form method="get" action="page2.htm">
<input type="button" value="Submit" name="b1" />
</form>

that way it would work for users with Javascript turned off.

Also I believe it is unwise to use "Submit" as a button name because it is also a Javascript keyword.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Using "Submit" as a name should cause no issues because of the case-sensitive nature of JavaScript. If you named the button "submit", you would have trouble calling the form's "submit" method, but with it named "Submit", you should still be able to call the "submit" method.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

To add to that, I don't believe that "Submit" or "submit" are [reserved] keywords in JavaScript. It just so happens that the form object has a method called submit.

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[BabyJeffy]

Clive,

There are so many ways to do the task. I wouldn't use a form button in the same way personally... but without getting into a long discussion about alternatives with the OP, it made more sense to answer their question directly and build on the solution they were working with (using an onclick which just needed a bit of tweaking).

I think Dan covered the reasoning on using Submit rather than submit on this one - but again... I was merely building on the OP's original code (so as not to confuse).

Cheers,
Jeff

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