Why does the button name appear left from it ?
Try this,
<input type="button" value="Query" onclick="query()"/>
in place of tag because Different browsers use different default types for the element.
If you use the element in an HTML form, different browsers may submit different values. Use to create buttons in an HTML form.
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I want to use a <button> in a website for a messaging function.
However I am confused with the type of button which I should use. As whether I should use submit, reset or else can I use <input> instead of a <button>?
If you are talking about just a button to submit a form or within a live chat using submit would be perfectly fine!
To have a button in your website, be it for a messaging function or not, both the <input type="button"> and the <button> tags can be used. The difference between the two tags is that the <button> tag can hold content such as images and text, whereas, with the <input> approach, you cannot (as it is a null element, an empty element, you could say).
Hope this helps!
I am creating a wordpress theme, and inside the admin panel I am creating a live preview of a search box. The user can style the search box directly from the admin panel. It's a very basic html code:
<li class="epurus_nav_search">
<form class="search_form">
<input class=nav_search_input" type="search" name="s" placeholder="Search..."/>
<input type="button" class="nav_search_submit" value="Go"/>
</form>
</li>
Now I noticed, that the entire admin live demo itself, is already an entire form field, so I can't use the above <form> (it breaks the websites when a form is inside a form). I have replaced the form tag with <span> however it often gives different css results than the form tag.
I am seeing all kind of different behaviours between the demo and the front end of the website. Paddings, margin and line-heights are all totally off, even though I have set them all to 0 or some other value.
Is there anyway I can use a form within a form, or is there another tag that comes close to <form>?
I am open to any tag such as span, div or even javascript solutions. The one thing I can't do, is move the HTML chunk outside of the admin form.
You can't insert a form element inside anothe one, as it will submit the parent and not the child. Also it may have fields in conflict.
A form is a block element, so it's more similar to a div than a span. I'd use that to start with. Starting from this point, I'd use a class like <div class="form"> and start styling it to fake the same form behavior. Simpliest way is to first analyse the processed form CSS (via developer tools) and then copy/paste the ones that affect forms only (i.e. not body inheritances etc).
Eventually you'd block the default submit button's event and submit the form in another way (ajax maybe?).
Try using <span> with display: block;
This should work.
EDIT:
I have had a brainwave. Put the div into the form and set all the styles to inherit
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I'm a little confused. What is the difference between these. Please don't reference really old postings. I notice that accessing some of the styles are different inline in html as well as in style sheets.
<input type=button>
vs
<button>
I guess I'm wondering which one will out live which?
or which is the best when taking into account ease of compatibility between all the general technologies that go into website creation? aka. which is going to cause the least amount of trouble
Unlike <input> tags, <button>'s can contain other html elements as their labels. <input type="button"> can only accept a string as its label text (css styles not withstanding).
Additionally, the <button> element accepts a wide range of uncommon but useful attributes regarding multiple forms and click actions. See the MDN page for more details.
As for one "out living" the other, the HTML standard is remarkably backwards compatible. Humanity will put men on Mars before either is eliminated from the HTML standard.
Inside a <button> element you can put content, like text or images.
eg: <button type="button" onclick="alert('Hello world!')">Click Me!</button>
If you use the <button> element in an HTML form, different browsers may submit different values. So always use <input type="button"> to create buttons in an HTML form.
input type=button
The tag is the easiest way to submit a form. When a customer clicks on the button, it submits automatically. You don't need to add any scripts, the browsers know to submit the form when a submit INPUT tag is clicked.
The problem is that this button is very ugly and plain. You can't add images to it. You can style it just like any other element, but it can still feel like an ugly button.
Use the INPUT method when your form has to be accesible even in browsers that have JavaScript turned off.
button
The BUTTON element offers more options for submiting forms. You can put anything inside a BUTTON element and turn it into a submit button. Most commonly people use images and text. But you could create a DIV and make that entire thing a submit button if you wanted to.
The biggest drawback to the BUTTON element is that it doesn't automatically submit the form. This means there needs to be some type of script to activate it. And so it is less accessible than the INPUT method. Any user who doesn't have JavaScript turned on won't be able to submit a form with only aBUTTON element to submit it.
Use the BUTTON method on forms that are not as critical. Also, this is a great way to add additional submission options within one form.
Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/buttons-on-forms-3464313
Use <button> from input element if you want to create button in a form.
And use button tag if you want to create button for an action.
More Info: Difference between <input type='submit' /> and <button type='submit'>text</button>
depends where you want to use it. input should be inside form, where button can be used anywhere.
I have a requirement wherein my page has few <input> elements and i want the browser to remember the values typed in them and show the autocomplete drop down for subsequent visits. But the problem is I dont have a <form> tag in my page and the processing is done via Javascript/Ajax.
Is there any way i can acheive this?
Solved by adding a tag around the elements. Thanks Rory. And also prevented the form submission with attribute onsubmit="return false;" on the form tag.
It works on firefox but not in chrome.
I have an HTML form with radio buttons, check boxes, text fields and drop down lists.
Since I want user to fill everything in my form, none of the radio buttons and check boxes are checked and the text fields are empty.
I would like to write a CSS file that will fill the form with answers (I don't want to change my HTML file).
Is this possible ?
I would appreciate an example or any other idea ?
Thanks !
No, it isn't possible. CSS is for style, not markup, and changing the contents of an input field requires modification of the markup.
It sounds like you might want to consider JavaScript, which can be used to alter the contents of any element, including form elements.
Javascript is your best bet. If you want to fill in -sample- answers, however, like 'First Name' in the text area what would be labelled "First Name: " you can do something like <input type='text' value='First Name' name='emailForm'> and the value attribute will be filled in when the page loads.
You can use jQuery to accomplish what you want quite easily, using CSS-style syntax.
Here's a sample form:
<form ...>
<input name="firstName" />
<input name="lastName" />
</form>
And corresponding jQuery/JavaScript:
$(function () {
$("input[name=firstName]").val("John");
$("input[name=lastName]").val("Doe");
});
Should be easy enough to extend to a larger and more complex form. You can easily use classes or ids on the elements and in the jQuery selectors, as well.
CSS is for designing and styling the webpage. Although its capabilities have been exploited to pull of many tricks it is not a fix-all solution. What you need to do is pull the data you need to fill and put it in your fields.
You can do this two ways:
Use a server side language like PHP/ASP.Net to pre-fill this information.
Use Javascript/Jquery/MooTools or some other framework to fill it on the client-side, picking up the data from the server.
If the information is static then it is very easy, because you can just put this info as a part of the HTML content itself.
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