[Sussex] Make IE 7 crash

[Brendan Whelan]

A technique I use for setting a specific number when a button is pressed 
is to use "onclick" and a bit of javascript.
The javascript sets the value and then issues a submit. I use this 
technique when I have loops within pages and want to identify (for 
example) which Save button was pressed.
I will send an example if anyone is interested.

Brendan
Vicky Lamburn wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> There's a couple of reasons I steer clear of <input type="submit" ...>
> - it's poor for CSS styling as if you use input submit on Safari for
> example, you cannot set the width and height of the button as it uses
> the aqua glow button look, where as <button> by default gives all
> browsers and all platforms a regular bland grey button which is ideal
> as a starting point to style with CSS.
>
> You can also use other tags within a button tag such as images and so
> forth so you can do some very nice things e.g.:
>
> http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element/
>
> The reason I can't use <input type="submit" is not just aesthetics in
> this instance. On the page due to the code in the background I have to
> register a numeric value (a database record ID) and pass it using a
> button, as such if I used
>
> <input type="submit" id="submitButton" name="submitButton"
> value="579">Approve Changes</input>
>
> The button would not be labeled Approve Changes but would be called
> '579' - which wouldn't help.
>
> It's hard to explain this in words without examples and this is a
> fairly unique situation that after 12 years of writing web pages and
> so forth, this is the first time that I have needed to pass a value
> through the submit button itself and the HTML 4.0 value <button> is
> the only way of doing that.
>
> Of course IE's implementation is all wrong, just like IE6's box object
> model makes about as much sense as I do after about two bottles of
> wine :)
>
> Vicky
>
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