On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 18:06 -0500, Andrew Ballard wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Micah Gersten <micah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You might want to consider the button element which allows you to > > display images, but doesn't send back coordinates. Instead it sends a > > preset value. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.5 > > > > Thank you, > > Micah Gersten > > onShore Networks > > Internal Developer > > http://www.onshore.com > > If you mean an INPUT element with the type="button", then yes. > (Although it will no longer be a submit button, so you'll have to > capture the click and perform the submit using Javascript which leads > back to accessibility issues, etc.) > > If you mean a BUTTON element of the type="submit", then not exactly. > It *will* send a preset value for sure, but that preset value will > differ depending on the browser. I've found that while FF will send > the value you set in the value="..." attribute, IE will send the > actual text of the button. Thus, > > <button name="test" value="blue">My Button Text</button> > > will send 'test=blue' in FF, but 'test=My+Button+Text' in IE. I'm > assuming this is because for <INPUT type="submit"> buttons, the text > content of the button IS the value in the value="..." attribute. > > Whatever the reason, that was a fun lesson to track down the first > time I had people tell me a page I wrote didn't work in IE. > > Andrew > Lets all march forward and renounce IE as a useful piece of software! Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php