270603 - <button onClick="window.history.back();"> Back </button> - don`t work right

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

page1.html ->send POST data to page2.html

page2.html have <button onClick="window.history.back();"> Back </button>

On this button click() browser reload page2.html with symbol "?" at the end of URI

Apache access.log:

127.0.0.1 - - [18/Nov/2004:14:09:00 +0200] "GET /page1.html HTTP/1.1" 200 2789
127.0.0.1 - - [18/Nov/2004:15:06:00 +0200] "POST /page2.html HTTP/1.1" 200 2789
127.0.0.1 - - [18/Nov/2004:15:07:43 +0200] "GET /page2.html? HTTP/1.1" 200 2920

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
show page1.html

If <BUTTON> replace by <INPUT type="button"> than it is OK

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

A <button> inside a form acts like a submit button in Mozilla. I'm not sure, but
I think this is intended behavior.
If you want the <button> to behave like a button again, use <button type="button"> 

Comment 2

[Paul van Schayck]

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.5
"type = submit|button|reset"

When no type= is specified for <button> the default is type="submit".

Is your <button> on page2.htm in a form?

Comment 3

[Gérard Talbot]

> symbol "?" at the end of URI
That's when submitting form data. I'm resolving this as INVALID because you need
to declare type="button" otherwise the button will try to submit form data.