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Submit images/buttons don't work in IE

Zones: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), JavaScript

Hi, I'm using 12 images as submit buttons with this code for each of them:

<input type="image" src="images/bd/comparta.jpg" name="entid" value="3" />

For example: When I click on the image corresponding to the code above, it posts entid=3 without any trouble in Firefox, but in IE it doesn't sends this value.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Zone: Web Development

Question Asked By: blueshaolin

Solution Provided By: mplungjan

Participating Experts: 2

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05.06.2008 at 02:03PM PDT, ID: 21511045

Onthrax:

Put your value in a hidden field in the form. IE will pick this up without problems..

05.06.2008 at 02:09PM PDT, ID: 21511097

blueshaolin:

How can I do that..... if I have values from 1 to 12 ? how could I make a selection in a hidden way ?

05.06.2008 at 02:20PM PDT, ID: 21511194

Onthrax:

For example with a little bit of javascript.

use this function:

function ImageClick(ImageNumber) {

document.getElementById("HiddenField").value = ImageNumber;
document.form.submit();

}

add this to your imagebutton:
onclick="ImageClick('1'); return false;" (replace the 1 with the appropriate number ofcoz)

Hope this helps

05.06.2008 at 02:28PM PDT, ID: 21511241

Rank: Genius

mplungjan:

That is a very bad idea to submit the form in the onclick of a submit button (which an image button is)

Just add this to the image button

<form>
<input type="hidden" name="entid" value="not set" />

<input type="image" onClick="this.form.entid.value=1" src="..." />
<input type="image" onClick="this.form.entid.value=2" src="..." />
<input type="image" onClick="this.form.entid.value=3" src="..." />

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05.06.2008 at 03:04PM PDT, ID: 21511444

blueshaolin:

It works great mplungjan!!!

Could you explain me why it is a very bad idea to submit the form in the onclick ?

05.06.2008 at 11:38PM PDT, ID: 21513600

Rank: Genius

mplungjan:

If you have a submit button or an input type=image, clicking the button or the image will submit the form
If you then add an onClick that uses javascript to submit too, you are actually submitting twice.
Depending on the speed of your computer, the two submissions will interfere with each other.

Now the image button is not very compatible when it comes to javascript.
Some older browsers do not support the onClick at all.
Some not so old browsers will not see the return false used by Onthrax to stop the submission and some will not submit when they see the return false.

I do not know what image you are using - is it very different than a button?
If it is just a coloured button with text, I strongly suggest you change it to a submit button and style it using the technique found here:

http://www.outfront.net/tutorials_02/adv_tech/funkyforms2.htm

                       
                                <style type="text/css">
input.red {background-color: red; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; color: white;}
input.yellow {background-color: yellow; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; color: black;}
</style>
.
.
 
<input class="red" type="submit" value="Comparta" onClick="this.form.entid=3" />
<input class="black" type="submit" value="Comparta" onClick="this.form.entid=4" />

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