317910 - Venkman reporting wrong type for button object?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 97829

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[jsd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921

Hi there.

I'm using the venkman debugger with Moz 1.7.12

Venkman reports the following button objects in the watches window as type of 'submit' - whether declared inside or outside of a form container. I thought the type of a button object was supposed to be 'button' ?

<button name="outsideform" id="outerbutton" onclick="validateForm()"</button>

<form name="form1" onsubmit="return false">
<button name="insideform" onclick="validateForm()">Validate</button>
...
...
</form>

Is this a bug, or is the just how Mozilla sees button object types?

Regards Keith roberts



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:



Expected Results:  
I was expecting the type of a button object to return 'button'

Comment 1

[Robert Ginda]

If it is a bug, it's got nothing to do with venkman.  Maybe the DOM guys know.

Comment 2

[Erik Fabert]

See bug 97829 comment 11.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97829 ***

Comment 3

[jsd]

I agree with comment 6, for bug 97829:

quote
 ------- Comment #6 From Katsuhiko Momoi  2001-09-05 11:37 PST  [reply] -------
...snip...
'Buttons could be used for other purposes than
submission. If non-submit type buttons always cause
"submit" action, many forms will become unusable.'
unquote.

The following button declaration is valid outside of a form control, yet still
returns the type of 'submit'. This button could be used to call a javascript function that has nothing to do with a form, or submitting a form - Eg some sort of DHTML page updating.

<button name="outsideform" id="outerbutton" onclick="xmlPOST()"</button>

Is there a valid workaround such as setting the type="button" attribute in the xhtml that is also Xbrowser compatible?

The only thing I can think of at the moment is to declare a button like this:

<button name="bt1" id="bt1" class="button" onclick="xmlPOST()"</button>

Then check for the button class within the type="submit" control type.
Not sure if this would be Xbrowser safe though!

Regards - Keith Roberts

Comment 4

[Erik Fabert]

I don't understand your problem. <button type="button"> IS cross-browser compatible except for some really old browser that didn't knew the button element at all.

Comment 5

[jsd]

TY Erik. So I have to explicitly declare the type="button" attribute in the button declaration to force the type from 'submit' to 'button'?

KR