On 2014-12-01 13:14, Israel Brewster wrote: > On Dec 1, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> >> The way to indicate to a browser that it shouldn't pre-fetch a >> URL is to make it a POST request. > > Ok, that makes sense. The only difficulty I have with that answer > is that to the best of my knowledge the only way to make a HTML > link do a POST is to use the onclick function to run a javascript, > while having the "link" itself point to nothing.
Well, generally one would use a form where the method=POST and then the button/input submits it: <form action="/path/to/my/url/" method="POST"> <input type="submit">This is an input<input> </form> or <form action="/path/to/my/url/" method="POST"> <button type="submit">This is a <strong>button</strong></button> </form> The advantage of a <button> is that it can contain rich content (other markup) while an <input type="submit"> can't. To do a POST via an <a> tag, you do need (as you mention) to do some ugly jiggery with JavaScript, but tends to break the mental model. You should be able to style a <button> element to look much like a link if you find the visual effect of a <button> unpleasant. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
