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HansStam
HansStam

Reputation: 519

code for submit button works in ff but not in ie

the following code works in FF, but it does not work in IE8.

<a class="sub">
<input type="submit" a="" none;<="" display:="">
</a>

The button is displayed, but the button is not clickable in IE8. What is going on?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 112

Answers (3)

Anicho
Anicho

Reputation: 2667

Here is a correctly formed input submit button: 

<input type="submit" value="Submit">

I noticed the words display and none usually you'd find it in the following form:

<input type="submit" value="Submit" style="display:none;"> // this however will hide the button

The attribute of type= with the value of "submit" makes our input tag into a submit button.

The attribute of value= with the value of "Submit" displays "Submit" text on our input button.

The attribute of style= allows us to do some inline css like "display:none;" which hides a html element its declared on.

I recommend checking out W3Schools for more on html input tags.

Additionally you are trying to make the button into a link using the <a> tag, this is invalid, please take a look at this Html forms and input page to see how to use the submit input type.

If you just want a link then I'd recommend looking at an <img> for a button and an <a> tag around that.

Upvotes: 2

jbrya029
jbrya029

Reputation: 492

I do not have comment privileges on this SE yet but I would say that IE is incapable if interpreting: <input type="submit" a="" none;<="" display:="">

When you open "input" you do not close it until after display. the addition of the "none;<" is probably interpreted as another attempt at a tag and breaking html. I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish but get rid of this:

none;<=""

Upvotes: 1

Jukka K. Korpela
Jukka K. Korpela

Reputation: 201538

The code is a mess, but it actually works in IE8, so any problem you are seeing is caused by something outside the code you posted.

Browsers will ignore the crap inside the input tag and recognize it simply as <input type="submit">. Some browsers might conceivably choke on the “<” character there, but IE8 doesn’t.

The a element wrapper outside it has no effect as such.

Upvotes: 0

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