Comments on: HTML button is not useful

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:18:45 +0000

Just run into this same problem, what a pain in the …

the following seems to work

not elegant but seems to do the job

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:23:14 +0000

oops, not auto-escaping?

By: Michiel Toneman

Michiel Toneman — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:11:47 +0000

I’ve gathered up some neat ideas found around the web into a generic workaround at:

http://www.kopz.org/public/documents/css/multiple_buttons_ie_workaround.html

The main advantage of this solution is that it doesn’t require any changes to the markup or the names of the form fields (which would require server side changes). Also if javascript is disabled, it doesn’t affect non-IE6 browsers.

Cheers,

Michiel

By: z850310

z850310 — Thu, 17 May 2007 00:04:56 +0000

i am currently workin on a pop up and it has say 12 buttons on it but those buttons are for some special function. im going to paste the code here: please tell me on how the buttons should copy the value onto the text box, i used the advanced button function on micorsoft frontpage and it is copying the html code instead not the value on the textbox. please tell me what are the correction or the codes.

code is

self.moveTo(0,0)
var isOpener = opener;
var refurl = !isOpener ? “none” : “yes”;
var winurl = document.location;
if(refurl == “none”){
window.open(winurl,”,’height=921,width=291,resizable=0,scrollbars=1,menubar=0,toolbar=0, titlebar=no,location=0,status=0′);
window.opener = this;
window.close();
}

TMGv2:

if (document.all){

actualtitle=document.title;

var scroller; //scroll down to set it

var ampm;

function antiMilitaryTime()

{

if (hr == “12″){

ampm=”P.M.”

}

else if (hr == “13″){

hr=”1″

ampm=”P.M.”

}

else if (hr == “14″){

hr=”2″

ampm=”P.M.”

}

else if (hr == “15″){

hr =”3″

ampm=”P.M.”

}

else if (hr == “16″){

hr = “4″

ampm=”P.M.”

}

else if (hr == “17″){

hr = “5″

ampm=”P.M.”

}

else if (hr == “18″){

hr = “6″

ampm=”P.M.”

}

else if (hr == “19″){

hr = “7″

ampm=”P.M.”

}

else if (hr == “20″){

hr = “8″

ampm=”P.M.”

}

else if (hr == “21″){

hr = “9″

ampm=”P.M.”

}

else if (hr == “22″){

hr = “10″

ampm=”P.M.”

}

else if (hr == “23″){

hr = “11″

ampm=”P.M.”

}

else if (hr == “24″){

hr = “12″

}

function addZero(){

if (min

function copy(TAG)
{
document.getElementById(”txtArea”).value=TAG

document.Form1.txtArea.focus();

document.Form1.txtArea.select();

CopiedTxt = document.selection.createRange();

CopiedTxt.execCommand(”Copy”);

}

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function CopyToClipboard()

{

document.Form1.txtArea.focus();

document.Form1.txtArea.select();

CopiedTxt = document.selection.createRange();

CopiedTxt.execCommand(”Copy”);

}

By: John Snyders

John Snyders — Thu, 17 May 2007 00:34:13 +0000

I have no idea what to make of that code other than the antiMilitaryTime is silly. I hope it was not created by a human.
I don’t know frontpage at all. The problem I was describing is a browser problem. It can be worked around on the server side or client side. I have no idea how it interacts with frontpage.

By: f

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:10:39 +0000

Hint #1:
function antiMilitaryTime() {
if (hr - 12 >= 0) {
hr -= 12
if (hr != 12) {
ampm = “P.M.”
}
if (hr == 0)
{
hr = 12
}
}
}

Hint #2:
Don’t use Microsoft FrontPage.

By: Infovore » links for 2007-07-25

Infovore » links for 2007-07-25 — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:41:31 +0000

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By: x

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:17:50 +0000

Hint #3

function antiMilitaryTime() {
if (hr == 12) { ampm = “Noon” }
if (hr == 0 || hr == 24) { ampm = “Midnight”; hr = 12 }
if (hr 12) { ampm = “P.M.”; hr -= 12 }
}

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:36:21 +0000

Lets not forget that on top of this bug (with multiple submit buttons) that IE also suffers from another bug with button elements, which renders them completely useless.

http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2007/10/bug-341-button-element-submits-wrong.html

When the form is submitted, the wrong value is passed to the server, so they can’t even be used due to an IE bug!

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:03:46 +0000

Thanks a lot for this article. I have been fighting with this for a couple of hours and thought there was something wrong with my html understanding. I’ll have a look through all the workarounds now to find a solution.

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