"Justin Patrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:15:17 +0200, Torsten Roehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Richard Davey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hello Jason, > > > > > > Tuesday, July 6, 2004, 2:37:08 PM, you wrote: > > > > > > JW> It might not be a good idea to rely on the "submit" button to be set. > > Some > > > JW> browsers do not set/send it if you didn't explicitly click on the > > "submit" > > > JW> button. I would use: > > > > > > Absolutely. If you hit ENTER to submit a form (rather than click the > > > button) you often don't get sent the button value. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Richard Davey > > > > I never had this problem. Usually the first submit button will come into > > effect when hitting enter. And my question remains: > > > > How do you check which button was pressed (read: which action should be > > performed) when not relying on this? > > > > The button is generally *not* sent by the browser if you hit enter > instead of submit. This *will* happen, so you have to deal with it. > > If you want to knwo what button was pressed, you have to have > different button names or values and check them. A button is just > another form element that is submitted.
I believe you are wrong here. I just checked it in IE5 and Opera 7.23. Submitting a form by hitting enter IS THE SAME as pressing a submit button because the form can only be submitted by putting a submit button in action. What the browser does if you hit enter is submit the button the focus is on at this moment - so you will always have this value in POST even if you don't click on the button. IE does this: When the page is loaded the focus is on the first submit button. If you click anywhere into the form the focus will go away from the button. When you then hit enter the focus will automatically be put on the first submit button again and thereby submit the form. Opera does this: When the page is loaded the focus is on the first submit button. If you click anywhere into the form the focus will go away from the button. When you then hit enter the form is NOT submitted because Opera does not put the focus on the first submit button automatically. So from my point of view a form cannot be submitted without at least one of the submit button values ending in POST. What do you think? Regards, Torsten -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
