Fri, 03 Apr 2009
HTML <button> Tag
So I wanted to upgrade the form we use in IS MU in many places for selecting a printer, splitting the "print" and "download PDF" functionality to separate buttons. The problem is how to make it as backward-compatible as possible.
I basically wanted to have two buttons with the same name="..."
attribute, and distinguish between them by their value="..."
attribute. I have came across the cool new (for me anyway :-) HTML tag
<button>, which does exactly what I want. I am able
to use my own machine-readable value="...", and put the
button label (localized) inside the <button>...</button>.
Except that it does
not work in MSIE. That parody of a browser does not send back the
value="..." attribute contents, but rather inner text
of the <button> tag for all buttons in the
form, not just for the actually clicked one. Stupid MSIE, die already.