I want to use a button to link to a page. However, the page url is something like domain.com/page?action=register.
I really need this action added to my:
form action="domain.com/page?action=register"
Form attribute, but when I try it with these settings, it will only go to domain.com/page
I've tried encoding the ? into %3F but that doesn't work.
Any help?
The ? values are set by the form, as long as the form's method is set to "get" (rather than "post", which doesn't submit the values in the URL). So, if you want to submit a form to page?action=register, you'd do the following:
<form action="domain.com/page" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="register">
It will also pass the other form values along in the URL, creating something like:
domain.com/page?action=register&first_name=john&last_name=doe
EDIT: As #ninetwozero mentioned in a comment, the scenario you describe above should work:
<form action="domain.com/page?action=register" method="post">
[rest of form]
I just tested the above and it passed both the ?action=register and the form values from my form. So, whichever you prefer.
Is "domain.com/page" the page that has the form and button?
Make sure that your button is like this:
<input type="submit" />
Not
<input type="button" />
Otherwise, you could actually use input type "button" with a javascript redirect.
<input type="button" onclick="location.href="domain.com/page?action=register" />
In fact, why use a bunch of form elements if all you want is a button to send you to another url?
<form>
<input type="button" onclick="location.href="domain.com/page?action=register" />
</form>
Not sure if you even need the tags really. Try it.
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I have this code, I use formaction attribute to return in home.html
but it's not working because of required attribute.
<form action="post">
Name:
<input type="text" name="name" required>
<br>
Email:
<input type="email" name="name" required>
<button name="Send" id="send">Send</button>
<button name="Return" id="return" formaction="home.html">Return</button>
</form>
The formaction attribute working fine. I can use the Network tab in my browser's developer tools to observe that when I click Return (in the live demo in your question) the form is submitted to home.html.
The required fields are still required (so I have to fill them in before that happens), but that is to be expected.
It sounds like your goal is to provide an exception and not need the user to enter any data when submitting the form to Return.
That isn't possible without adding a bunch of JS but you're approaching the problem from the wrong angle in the first place.
It looks like you want something for the user to click on that will abort filling in the form and just go to a different URL. There's no data submission involved.
That isn't a job for a submit button.
Use a link instead.
Return
You can apply CSS if you want it to look like a button, but I wouldn't recommend it. The visual appearance of the button implies that the form data will be sent somewhere, and that isn't what you are doing.
You should refer to homepage at the form tag
<form action="home.html" method="POST">
and for the submit
<input type="button" name="Return" id="return">
Basic question. If I have a form in my HTML (where in my case someone inputs a date), how can I have my users cause a GET request with the contents of that form instead of a POST.
e.g. form entry (e.g date)... so 20190312
what I am trying to achieve is such that AFTER the user submits the form.. the user is the lead to page that has
GET domain.tld/scriptname.php?variable=20190312
and then the system then processes the GET request accordingly.
thank you
Maybe i'm missunderstanding what you are asking.
This can easly be achived using builtin GET method in FORM tag
<body>
<form id="form" method="GET" action="scriptname.php">
<input id="date-txt" type="text" name="date">
<input id="search-btn" type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
While filling up above field ad clicking "Submit" form will be submitted and you can see in your url path/or/page/scriptname.php?date=INPUT_FIELD_VAL
for every input in #form with a name, if GET method is used, you'll see a ?name=value in the url
What you describe is the default behaviour of a form. If you don't want a POST request, then don't use a method attribute to set the request type to POST.
<form action="//domain.tld/scriptname.php">
<input name="variable" value="20190312">
<button>Submit</button>
</form>
I am only starting to learn to code with HTML, so if this question seems trivial or simple, I apologise in advance.
Suppose I have a form, like
<form><input type="url" name="url"><input type="submit" value="Go"></form>
How do I make the submit button go to the url that the user types in?
You cannot do that using pure HTML. The form will always post/get to the URL which the action attribute of the form points to.
However, with some javascript you can do this.
This should work:
<form id="form" method="get">
<input type="url" name="url" onchange="document.getElementById('form').action = this.value;">
<input type="submit" value="Go">
</form>
What this does is it uses the onchange event of the url input box so everytime that changes, the action of the form is updated.
In addition to the sending the user to the url when they hit submit, are you trying to save the url that is typed in?
If so you will need more than HTML to accomplish this, probably php + sql would be the easiest route to save it.
However, if all you're trying to do is let a user go to the url they are typing in, you could accomplish this through javascript or jquery.
For example in your html:
<form>
<input id="url" type="url" name="url">
<input type="button" value="Go" />
</form>
Then add this jquery:
$('input[type=button]').click( function() {
var url = $('#url').text();
$(location).attr('href', url)
});
Try this: http://jsfiddle.net/p6zxg25v/2/
There is a HTML form which has some text input fields and 2 buttons, say Yes and No. Instead of accessing the URL first and then filling up the form, how can I fill up those text fields which I need to fill and do the action of either one of the buttons in a single URL?
E.g. Take this form for example: there are 2 fields text1 and text2.
http://www.mysite.com?text1=value1&text2=value2
In the above e.g.(hope that is right) how to add the button action also, is my question.
Appreciate your help.
Typically YES/NO choices are represented with a pair of radio buttons. These values would automatically be sent back with the form submission, based on the name of the radio buttons.
Use submit inputs instead of buttons.
<form>
<input type="submit" name="submitbutton" value="Yes" />
<input type="submit" name="submitbutton" value="No" />
</form>
Then you can grab what button the user pressed to send the form using PHP, JSP, ASP or whatever is your server-side language.
This is not possible unless you have control over the file displaying the form. If you do have control over that file I can show you how with JavaScript. It would make much more sense to use the serverside language filling the form in though.
Can be done through javascript:
Put input type=hidden in your form, and fill the value with a button and submit right after that.
<form name="name_of_form" action="" method="GET">
<input type="hidden" name="button_value" value="" id="hidden_value" />
<button type="button" onclick="javascript:submit_form('yes');">Yes</button>
<button type="button" onclick="javascript:submit_form('no');">No</button>
</form>
And add this JS function at the top somewhere
function submit_form(yesno)
{
document.getElementById('hidden_value').value=yesno;
document.name_of_form.submit();
}
note: Although it should work, I can't tell for sure, cause i suck at JS.
I have a button on an html page declared like so:
<button type="submit" name="action" value="sort">SAVE CHANGES</button>
My company demands we support older versions of IE, and in versions 8 and lower when the user goes to submit the form, it passes the text between the 2 button tags. So i need to use an input tag instead. Can someone help me figure out how to create an input tag where the type=submit, the name=action and the value=sort, but hte text on the button says 'SAVE CHANGES'.
Thanks!
Like this:
<input type="submit" name="action" value="SAVE CHANGES" />
However if the value="sort" is important to you perhaps you could move it to an input type="hidden" element.
An option is to use an image button with the text SAVE CHANGES on it.
<input type="image" src="save_changes.png" name="action" value="sort" />
Don't give your submit button a name, make a hidden field with the name and value you want.
<button type="submit">SAVE CHANGES</button>
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="sort" />
So, when the form is submitted, the value "action=sort" will be submitted.
The requirements seem to exclude solutions other than using <input type=image>, which has serious problems; in particular, the coordinates of the clicked location are transmitted, and probably a revision of the requirements will therefore exclude this, too.
Using JavaScript, you could tweak the data before it gets sent, or maybe use an image with an onclick handler that turns it to a button in a sense.
Normally, problems like this should be solved by modifying the server-side code. But if you have some reason why the field name (in the submitted data) must be different from the text in the button, then there does not seem to be any solution, with the given conditions.