171601 - <a href=""> around submit element prevents form being submitted

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 127903

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Ed Catmur]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020926
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020926

This (and various other pages) wraps a form submit element inside an anchor <a>
element (for the sake of mouseover code, apparently); the anchor is given a
'href="#"' attribute.
On clicking the button, it seems that the anchor element steals the click event
from the submit button, preventing the form from being submitted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on 'Verify items' button
Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Submit form (at the given URL, this results in an alert box being displayed)

Also seen on Linux-i686 20020916.

Comment 1

[Ed Catmur]

Attachment: Testcase (4 cases)

1. <input type="submit"/> - works
2. the above inside <a> - works
3. as 1, inside <a href=""> - fails
4. as 1, inside <a href="#"> - fails

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

Mozilla treats the button as a link.  I don't know if that's the right behavior
or not, but it is quite bad HTML.

It looks like the page in question is using the <a href="#" ...> to get
mouseover effect on the button (button-mouseover probably doesn't work in old
browsers).

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127903 ***