I'd like to create an HTML form submit button with the value 'add tag', however, the web page is in Swedish, so I'd like to have a different button text.
That is, I want to have a button like
but I want to have my code like
if (request.getParameter(cmd).equals("add tag"))
tags.addTag( /*...*/ );
Is this possible? If so, how?
It's possible using the button element.
<button name="name" value="value" type="submit">Sök</button>
From the W3C page on button:
Buttons created with the BUTTON element function just like buttons created with the INPUT element, but they offer richer rendering possibilities: the BUTTON element may have content.
Following the #greg0ire suggestion in comments:
<input type="submit" name="add_tag" value="Lägg till tag" />
In your server side, you'll do something like:
if (request.getParameter("add_tag") != null)
tags.addTag( /*...*/ );
(Since I don't know that language (java?), there may be syntax errors.)
I would prefer the <button> solution, but it doesn't work as expected on IE < 9.
There are plenty of answers here explaining what you could do (I use the different field name one) but the simple (and as-yet unstated) answer to your question is 'no' - you can't have a different text and value using just HTML.
I don't know if I got you right, but, as I understand, you could use an additional hidden field with the value "add tag" and let the button have the desired text.
If you handle "adding tag" via JScript:
<form ...>
<button onclick="...">any text you want</button>
</form>
Or above if handle via page reload
Related
I have 4 links. Previously implemented as A tags.
My goal is to switch the request method (GET) with POST. Everything else have to remain the same!
The problem - it must be implemented using pure HTML - to be exact - no ajax and no window.open().
My solution is half way there. Hopefully to get a creative second half from you (impossible is also an answer)
Here is the (simplified) HTML:
<form
id = "resultsForm"
target="_blank"
action="http://example.com"
method="post"
>
<input type="hidden" name="data" value="someData">
<button type="submit" value="submit">
<p class="contextual"> title </p>
<span></span>
</button>
</form>
Now, it looks and feels like the old implementation and also sends POST requests
But - contrary to a link - a button can't be middle clicked or opened in new window when right clicking on it (by default...)
Can I somehow wrap it in an A tag to achieve the explained behavior without using js events or be conflicted with form subbmission?
Your help is really appreciated
No, this is impossible.
Anchor elements cannot contain interactive elements such as button elements.
Forms should be posted to the target window, so a normal click on the submit button, by virtue of the _blank value, should open an unnamed browsing context (a new window or tab).
Users should be accustomed to not middle-clicking on buttons, although there is a habit of developers to style links to look like buttons, throwing off users' expectations (end rant:)).
I am sort of a beginner at this, but my objective is to have the header of my webpage changing, depending on what button was clicked on another page.
More precisely, I have a webpage with 7 buttons on it coded like this:
<form action="contribution.html">
<input type="submit" style="margin-right: 80px;margin-top: 25px;" value="I contribute">
</form>
All of the buttons lead to the same "contribution.html" page, but I would like the header of that page to be different depending on what button the user clicked. There must be a way to do this without creating 7 different "contribution.html" pages for each button... I assume.
Can anyone help, please?
When you do form submission server receives HTTP post request that contains button clicked. Having that request server side can generate proper content of <title> element. Browser will render that text in <title> as a caption of tab/page.
Thus you will need something like PHP or the like on your server. In this case you can have single contribution.php file (but not static html).
Using javascript is the easiest solution. If you spend a little time learning jQuery, you could use something like this:
// A reference to your "header" element
var header = $('.header');
// When the submit button is clicked
$('[type=submit]').click(function(){
// Update the header with the button's text
header.text( $(this).value() );
});
Though I'd recommend using a more specific selector for the buttons you want this to work for, [type-submit] is too generic but I used it because you did.
Use a server-side language and <a> tags instead of a form.
In PHP it will look something like this:
10$
20$
30$
etc.
Then on contribution.php you can get the request data from $_GET['sum'] and act accordingly.
Depending on your application and if you want to be SEO Friendly you should look into this answer How to dynamically change a web page's title?
In my AngularJS project I have an account details page where you can change your personal account information. This page allows for multiple phone numbers and e-mailaddresses to be supplied. Using mouse input (or tabbing to buttons and pressing them with space bar) works perfectly, however I'd like to add the convenience of the enter key pressing the 'logical' buttons.
My form looks like (accidentally forgot to translate a few items):
A simplified version of the HTML for the form can be found on PasteBin, I've mainly removed the directives for managing the lists.
All buttons are <button> elements except for the cancel button which an <a> to the previous page, and the submit button is <button type="submit">.
When selecting any text box and pressing enter, the first (non-disabled) <button> element is 'clicked'. Meaning if I would change the last name, hit enter, the first phone number would be removed.
When you're in a new entry of phone numbers or e-mailaddresses (the row with the green + button) it should click that button, and if it's disabled do nothing.
When you're in any other text box on the form it should hit the save button, and also if the save button's disabled, do nothing.
Both buttons will be disabled based on form validation.
There'd be no trouble in changing the type of a button from button to submit if that'd help.
I would preferably have an all HTML solution, using just semantics, but I doubt that's really possible. So the logical alternative would be to use an AngularJS directive.
Please do not provide a jQuery or plain JavaScript solution relying on IDs or something like that. I don't want to hack my way around AngularJS, rather embrace it.
In the meantime I've worked on a directive that allows me to declare what I've called 'submit scopes'.
In essence you have actions (inputs) and targets (buttons), they're bound through a service by a key you can assign in the template. To avoid keys from clashing and from simple annoying work you can create a submit-scope which will cause it's children to prepend a unique key to the value they're accessing.
Within a submit-scope you can still override an action to use a global key instead by setting the attribute global-submit="true".
Example code:
<div submit-scope>
<input type="text" submit-action />
<button type="button" submit-target>Pressing enter in the above field will click this button.</button>
</div>
You can view the entire source code and a slightly larger example on Plnkr.
I just tried to replace
<button>Cancel</button>
with
<input type="button" value="Cancel">
and it seems to work correctly...
Is there a way to put text in a textbox but also allow the user to type something. I would like to write "username:" inside the box and allow the user to type after the colon. I can do this the hard way by creating a div right next to a textbox and make it look like they are one container, but I was wondering if there was an easier way? Thanks
EDIT: I don't want to text to disappear. I just want to user to be able to continue typing
EDIT 2: the reason you cant put a value in the textbox is because its a form. when the user types a username next to the value it will submit together
HTML5 has a placeholder attribute you can now use:
<input type="text" placeholder="username" />
People have also created javascript functions that mimic this functionality.
There's also a jQuery placeholder plugin which does the same, if you'd like to go that route.
What's wrong with using standard HTML? You don't say that you need it to disappear...
<input type="text" value="username: " />
If you need it to disappear, use a placeholder attribute and a jQuery plugin as a fallback (for the browsers that don't support it.
You could do something like this:
<div>
<label>Username:</label>
<input type="text" />
</div>
CSS
div{border:1px solid gray;}
label{font-family:arial; font-size:.8em;}
input{border:none;}
input:focus{outline:none;}
Basically, created a containing div and placed a label and input in that div. label is the words that stay in the field. input has the border removed.
http://jsfiddle.net/jasongennaro/rZmFx/
Fyi... you may need to increase the size of the input, depending on how many characters you want to accept.
<input type="text" placeholder="Category"/>
Maybe that can help you. If you want the textbox for only read you can put the property readonly = "".
You could call this javascript function once the page is loaded:
function add(text){
var TheTextBox = document.getElementById("Mytextbox");
TheTextBox.value = TheTextBox.value + text;
}
If you are using HTML5, you can use the placeholder attribute.
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/att_input_placeholder.asp
I'm using <input type="file" /> in my webpage. I've different CSS classes for button and other controls. But I'm not able to add any class, style to browse button that appears due to above tag.
Is there any way to change its default appearance?
Thanks is advance.
You can't do that. You could only apply style to the entire <input />.
You could use opacity: 0 CSS hacks to replace it with you favorite image and image:hover.
Keep in mind that height: property will not work on Firefox 3.6; You could use font-size: to enlarge the height instead.
I have an example made: http://timc.idv.tw/html5-file-upload/ ; inspect the CSS of the 2nd demo.
You can't style the file input directly, but you can indeed give it some faux styling and/or make it invisible but still clickable. There's an article on how to do so at Quirksmode.
The <input type="file" /> control is notoriously difficult to style.
Here are some articles that can help.
There are also some nice libraries for styling hard-to-skin form elements. Uniform is nice for selects and upload fields.
You can't style a file input button with CSS. This is not the only element that you can not style. Some other inputs are not accepting styles. Look at this fiddle to see many types of inputs. Based on your browser some inputs renders different. Inputs like range input or date inputs are using OS level UI that is not editable by CSS.
What you can do is hiding the file input and showing another element like a div or another input that is accepting styling like button type input as your file input and trigger trigger click and submit (hitting enter) events on your hided actual file input.
Code example:
HTML
<input type="file" />
<label>Select file to upload: <input type="button" /></label>
CSS
input[type="file"]{visibility:hidden; width:0;}
JavaScript:
var fileInput = document.querySelectorAll('input[type="file"]')[0],
fakeFileInput = document.querySelectorAll('label')[0],
clickEvent = document.createEvent('MouseEvent');
clickEvent.initMouseEvent('click',true,true,document.defaultView,1,0,0,0,0,false,false,false,false,0,null);
fakeFileInput.addEventListener('click', function(event){
fileInput.dispatchEvent(clickEvent);
}, false);
Look at fiddle in action
So answer of you question is: No, unfortionantly you can not style file input BUTTON!