274061 - Form buttons act like the submit button

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 97829

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Andrei Iscu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115

Using Mozilla Firefox, on a page that had a form in it and within the form there
were a few buttons (defined like <button onclick="JavaScript: //some code
here;">Button</button>). The form had no submit button (since it was use for
some  javascript codes that scrolled some thext in a text input). And, when you
pressed the button (that shouldhave redirected the browser to a different page
through a javascript) it submited the information from the text input to itself.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just write a simple html page with a form and a text input. AT action in the
form tag, leave nothing.
2. Within the form write a button tag <button>Blah</button>
3. Open the page with firefox... and press the button after writting some text
in the text input box. And voila! Le bug! =)

Actual Results:  
The result is something like (in the address bar):
http://www.testthis.com?input_name=scrolling_message

Expected Results:  
The button if pressed should have done nothing!

Comment 1

[Steffen Wilberg]

*** Bug 274062 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Paul van Schayck]

Correct behaviour:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.5

"type = submit|button|reset [CI]
    This attribute declares the type of the button."

Submit is default behaviour. Declare type='button' to make it a button. Bug is
INVALID.

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 274060 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Mike Kowalski]

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