Why i should use buttons instead of links?

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Vytautas Germanavičius	Monday 13 June 2005 10:40:16 am Can someone explain, whay this doeasn't work <form method="post" action={"/content/action"\|ezurl} name="newPhoto"> <input type="hidden" name="NodeID" value="1180" /> <input type="hidden" name="ClassID" value="5" /> <a href="#" onclick="document.forms.newPhoto.submit()">Add Photo</a> </form> But if i change link with button, it works <form method="post" action={"/content/action"\|ezurl} name="newPhoto"> <input type="hidden" name="NodeID" value="1180" /> <input type="hidden" name="ClassID" value="5" /> <input type="submit" name="NewButton" value="{'Create here'\|i18n('design/standard/node/view')}" /> </form> {set-block scope=root variable=cache_ttl}0{/set-block}
Tom Couwberghs	Wednesday 15 June 2005 2:35:27 pm I'm not entirely sure, but I believe the content/action script, needs the name of the submit-button to decide what action he will perform. You can solve it like this: -start from your working example -hide the submit button with a touch of css (display:none) -Make a link (with javascript) that will click your submit-button. Hope this helps, Tom
Vytautas Germanavičius	Thursday 16 June 2005 12:29:22 am I solved problem in this way - i made hidden field instead of button. This works: <form method="post" action={"/content/action"\|ezurl} name="newPhoto"> <input type="hidden" name="NodeID" value="1180" /> <input type="hidden" name="ClassID" value="5" /> <input type="hidden" name="NewButton" value="{'Create here'\|i18n('design/standard/node/view')}" /> <a href="#" onclick="document.forms.newPhoto.submit()">Add Photo</a> </form> {set-block scope=root variable=cache_ttl}0{/set-block}
Maxime Thomas	Friday 03 March 2006 5:32:08 am I found another solution. You can use the input image element : <form action="/content/action" name="myform"> <input type="image" name="MyButton" src="logo.png" /> </form> Rather than : <form action="/content/action" name="myform"> <a href="javascript:document.myform.submit()"> <img src="logo.png"/> </a> <input type="hidden" name="MyButton"/> </form> Maxime Thomas maxime.thomas@wascou.org \| www.wascou.org \| http://twitter.com/wascou Company Blog : http://www.wascou.org/eng/Company/Blog Technical Blog : http://share.ez.no/blogs/maxime-thomas
Xavier Dutoit	Friday 03 March 2006 6:04:07 am I saw you found a solution, but to answer to your initial question: everytime you have a from that perform an action that change the state of your system (add delete or modify), the W3C ask to use a post action (not a get, ie. not a link). This avoids, for instance, robots of the search engines creating zillions of drafts while indexing your site. X+ http://www.sydesy.com