So basically, I have a form submit button:
<input type="submit" id="submit" name="submit" value="Click to Search">
I would like to ONLY style the value, 'Click to Search'.
Currently, the button has a background color, although I would like to assign an individual background to just the value.
Is this possible without changing the structure of my HTML?
If that's always the value, how about using Attribute Selectors?
input[type=submit][value='Click to Search'] {
background-color: red;
}
That will style only <input>s whose type attribute's value is submit and value is Click to Search. See a demo here.
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I came across value of attribute in button and as it was explained here https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-name-and-value-in-an-HTML-tag value attribute defines text on button. And I expected that <button value="submit"></button> will be equal to <button>Submit</button> but <button value="submit"></button> output button with no text on it. Thus, I a bit confused with why and when we need to use value attribute for button tags in HTML
Value is the result to be posted to server when the button is pressed and has nothing to do with display text.
The button's value gets submitted to the server; You might want to know which button the user clicked.
we can define submit button by two ways.
<input type="submit" value="save" >
by this method, the value will be displayed as text for the button.
But the button tag.
<button type="submit" value="save">Submit Form</button>
Here the value is represented as the value of that button field if you need to use it.
Also, someone use this value when they use multiple submit forms in a php file to identify the form, someone uses the submit button name too.
Value actually acts as text when used in the form like
<input type="button" value="report" >
And acts as a value when used as
<button type="button" value="report">Report</button>
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Difference between <input type='button' /> and <input type='submit' />
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Is there a difference between a button with type="button" vs type="submit"? Are there functional differences, or is it just a descriptive name for easier code reading?
Is this different than input?
From MDN:
type
The type of the button. Possible values are:
submit: The button submits the form data to the server. This is the default if the attribute is not specified, or if the attribute is dynamically changed to an empty or invalid value.
reset: The button resets all the controls to their initial values.
button: The button has no default behavior. It can have client-side scripts associated with the element's events, which are triggered when the events occur.
As for the difference between button and input:
A button can have a separate value as data, while for an input the data and button text are always the same:
<input type="button" value="Button Text"> <!-- Form data will be "Button Text" -->
<button type="button" value="Data">Button Text</button>
A button can have HTML content (e.g. images), while an input can only have text.
A button may be easier to tell apart from other input controls (like text fields) in CSS. Note backwards browser compatibility.
input {
}
button { /* Always works */
}
input[type=button] { /* Not supported in IE < 7 */
}
A button with type "button" won't submit a form but one with no type or type=submit (the default) will. Buttons with type=submit are nearly the same as inputs with type=submit but buttons are able to contain HTML content.
<input type="button" />
buttons will not submit a form - they don't do anything by default. They're generally used in conjunction with JavaScript as part of an AJAX application.
<input type="submit">
buttons will submit the form they are in when the user clicks on them, unless you specify otherwise with JavaScript.
when form submit by below code, We should use type=button instead of type=submit to prevent form submit twice.
#using (Html.BeginForm("View", "Controller", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "signupform" }))
{
//Form elements
}
Buttons can be stylized much better than inputs can be used for anchor tags(links).
Images
Content etc.
Inputs can achieve the same functionality as buttons but uglier design.
Let's say inputs are oldschool, buttons are cooler.
They have different default behaviour regarding submitting form data to the server
The button has an attribute named "type" and can contain those values:
submit: Has default behaviour of submitting the form data to the server. This is the default if the attribute is not specified, or if the attribute is dynamically changed to an empty or invalid value.
button: The button has no default behavior. It can have client-side scripts associated with the element's events, which are triggered when the events occur.
<button type="button"></button> buttons will not submit a form - they don't do anything by default. Button won't submit form on its own.It is a simple button which is used to perform some operation by using javascript whereas Submit is a kind of button which by default submit the form whenever user clicks on submit button.
I am using this code to try and submit a value via form but it doesn't seem to submit anything...
I would normally use a checkbox or Radio buttons for multiple options but I want to use an image to do this.
Is this code wrong?
<input id="test1" name="test1" type="image" src="images/f.jpg" value="myValue" alt="" />
So I want to pass the value in value="myValue".
The form works fine so that's not the problem, I just need help with the input part not submitting as I know that works.
Thanks
An input type="image" only defines that image as the submit button and not as an input that can carry over a value to the server.
Using the type="image" is problematic because the ability to pass a value is disabled. Although it's not as customizable and thus as pretty, you can still use your images ao long as they are part of a type="button".
<button type="submit" name="someName" value="someValue"><img src="someImage.png" alt="SomeAlternateText"></button>
I was in the same place as you, finally I found a neat answer :
<form action="xx/xx" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="what you want" value="what you want">
<input type="image" src="xx.xx">
</form>
I've found that image-buttons DO return a response, but you should NOT use a value-option. What I see returned are two version of the name="MYNAME" with .X and .Y endings.
For example:
<input type="image" src="/path-to/stop.png" name="STOP" width="25" height="25" align="top" alt="Stop sign">
This is within your <form> to </form>. If you click the image, what's returned are STOP.X and STOP.Y with numeric values. The existence of either indicates the STOP image-button was clicked. You don't need any special code. Just treat it as another kind of "submit" button that returns a pair of augmented NAMEs.
I've tried this on Safari, Firefox and Chrome. The image wasn't displayed with Safari, but where it was supposed to be located, my cursor turned into a finger-icon, and I could click it.
Some browsers (IIRC it is just some versions of Internet Explorer) only send the co-ordinates of the image map (in name.x and name.y) and ignore the value. This is a bug.
The workarounds are to either:
Have only one submit button and use a hidden input to sent the value
Use regular submit buttons instead of image maps
Use unique names instead of values and check for the presence of name.x / name.y
Here is what I was trying to do and how I did it. I think you wanted to do something similar.
I had a table with several rows and on each row I had an input with type image. I wanted to pass an id when the user clicked that image button. As you noticed the value in the tag is ignored. Instead I added a hidden input at the top of my table and using javascript I put the correct id there before I post the form.
<input type="image" onclick="$('#hiddenInput').val(rowId) src="...">
This way the correct id will be submitted with your form.
Inputs of type="image" don't send their name/value pair when used to submit the form. To me, that sounds like a bug, but that's how it is.
To get around this, you can replace the input with a button of type="submit", and put a img element inside.
Unfortunately, that causes your image to be in a ugly HTML "button". However, assuming you aren't using the standard HTML button anywhere, you can just override the stylesheet, and then everything should work as expected:
button, input[type="submit"], input[type="reset"] {
background: none;
color: inherit;
border: none;
padding: 0;
font: inherit;
cursor: pointer;
outline: inherit;
}
<form action="/post">
<input name="test">
<button type="submit" name="submit_button" value="submitted">
<img src="https://via.placeholder.com/32" alt="image">
</button>
</form>
You could use a radio button/checkbox and set it to hide the button in css and then give it a label with an image.
input[type="radio"] {display: none}
input[type="radio"] + label span {display: block}
Then on the page:
<input type="radio" name="emotion" id="mysubmitradio" />
<label for="mysubmitradio"><img src="images/f.jpg" />
<span>if you need it</span></label>
And then set it to submit using javascript:
document.forms["myform"].submit();
Solution:
<form name="frmSeguimiento" id="frmSeguimiento" method="post" action="proc_seguimiento.php">
<input type="hidden" name="accion" id="accion"/>
<input name="save" type="image" src="imagenes/save.png" alt="Save" onmouseover="this.src='imagenes/save_over.png';" onmouseout="this.src='imagenes/save.png';" value="Save" onclick="validaFrmSeguimiento(this.value);"/>
function validaFrmSeguimiento(accion)
{
document.frmSeguimiento.accion.value=accion;
}
Regards,
jp
well if i was in your place i would do this.I would have an hidden field and based on the input image field i would change the hidden field value(jQuery), and then finally submit the hidden field whose value reflects the image field.
You could use formaction attribute (for type=submit/image, overriding form's action) and pass the non-sensitive value through URL (GET-request).
The posted question is not a problem on older browsers (for example on Chrome 49+).
Add this
name="myvalue"
To your tag.
To submit a form you could use:
<input type="submit">
or
<input type="button"> + Javascript
I never heard of such a crazy guy to try to send a form using a image or a checkbox as you want :))
I have a form with a set of inputs, and I want my page to refresh when one of them changes. I have a second set of inputs on the OTHER side of the page, and the css layout doesn't make it convenient for me to put them in the same <form> </form> tag. I was wondering if there is a way that I can make sure those "inputs" that are located outside of the <form> tag are still associated with that form.
Is there some way we can assign a "form id" to the inputs?
In HTML5, you can use the form attribute:
A form-associated element is, by default, associated with its ancestor form element, but may have a form attribute specified to override this.
If a form-associated element has a form attribute specified, then that attribute's value must be the ID of a form element in the element's owner Document.
Example:
<form id="myform">
<input id="something" type="text">
</form>
<button form="myform" type="submit">Submit that form over there</button>
You should however make sure that it is clear to the user that these visually separated form elements are in fact connected.
<input type="text" form="myform" /> worked for me.
Update
This worked great with FireFox, however gave me trouble in IE 11 as the form attribute is not recognized with IE (as of writing this).
I had to just set a hidden input field inside the form, and transferred value to hidden input field from input outside form; with onclick using jQuery.
<input class="checkbox" id="staff_recruiting" name="company_type"
value="staff_recruiting" type="checkbox">
<input type="hidden" value="all" name="keyword" id="search-keyword-input">
$('#search-keyword').keyup(function() {
$('#search-keyword-input').val($(this).val());
});
Your problem will be solved bro:
Add a hidden input field in your form.
Using jQuery or JS to change that hidden input field value with that outside input box.
Your page will refresh and your outside box value will be grabbed.
I think that the normal behavior of a button like the one below is that the value attribute serves as a label as well:
<input type="submit" name="submitButton" value="DeleteAnswer22" />
Is it possible to have separate attributes for display label and value?
Use the HTML Button element, with type submit, instead:
<button type="submit" name="submitButton" value="DeleteAnswer22">Delete Answer 22</button>
This will result in a submit button that sends the value DeleteAnswer22 but displays "Delete Answer 22".