Closed Bug 457818 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

button inside form submits

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 97829

People

(Reporter: magnus.isaksson, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

<button onClick="someJavaScript()">, the function someJavaScript has no submit(). Why does mozilla but not IE submit form? Pretty sure this does not happend in previous mozilla versions. Using button instead of input type submit inorder to control submit.

I've checked for updates on mozilla but none to find. Checked bug reports but nothing seems to match. Tried to figure out what standard says but no wiser. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
<?php
	if(isset($_POST['Kalle'])) {
		echo 'Not submitted....? Kalle value: ' . $_POST['Kalle'];
	}
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<head>
		<title>Testar button</title>
		
		<script type="text/JavaScript" src="JavaScripts/java_scripts.js"></script>
		<script type="text/javascript">
			function someJavaScript(param1) {
				var tmp = document.getElementById('stat');
				tmp.name = 'Kalle';
				tmp.value = param1;
			}
		</script>
	</head>
	<body>
	
		<form name="test_form" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST">
			<input type="hidden" name="stat" id="stat">
			<button onClick="someJavaScript(4)">Click Me</button>
		</form>
	
	</body>
</html>
Actual Results:  
Well, try the code above in both mozilla and IE 6 and 7. Only mozilla submits by itself.


Not submit since there's no submit statement.
The default button type is "submit" which means clicking it will submit the form it is in (unless your click handler cancels that).

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.5

It is a bug in IE that buttons do not do this by default.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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