Firefox and IE URL difference

It seems that you're using an <input type="image"> element. One solution might be to remove its name attribute.

Please, show to us the code that contain the forms you use to send the information.

Hello, yes, i'm using an image instead of the usual submit button. I'll try removing the name attribute later on. Any reason why Firefox and IE shoe different URL's? surely if its the web they should show the same URL regardless of browser

thanks that sounds like a logical answer

so does this make my url more comprehensible looking as I prefer it without the submit button values?

thanks. at the moment I'm using GET so that the URL can be bookmarked.  I'm also using php to process the form and the line of code I'm using to check if form is submitted is shown below. I'll have to cehck if this is affected.

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
 
xxx
 
}

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thanks, having an emtpy field is something I overlooked. I'll add that to it and see how it works.

currently I'm just usingthe code below, it works and looks nicer then the generic submit button. the only annoying thing is the x=0&submit.y=0&submit=submit which do look like co-ordinates of some sorts

<input type="image" src="/images/button.gif" name="submit" alt="submit"/>

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"The URL is only a side effect of the issue.  There once was a technology called server-side image maps. It used a form and the <input type="image"> element. When a user clicked on the image, the coordinates were sent to the server which then did some appropriate action. Some browsers still send the coordinates.  Now it's best to avoid using both kinds of image maps due to accessibility issues. There are certain CSS techniques that provide a much more user-friendly equivalent."

So when it comes to this issue is Firefox more standards compliant by displaying this additional information?

thanks. will read up on that.

I've updated the code to make sure the textfield is not empty. It also occurred to me do I really need to check if the form has been submitted as surely if it hasn't then no search would go through?

//Check if textfield is not empty.
if (!empty($_GET['textfield'])) {
	$textfield = ($_GET['textfield']);
	}
else {
	$textfield = NULL;
	echo 'You forgot to enter a keyword for your search.';
}
// Only allow letters in textfield.
if (preg_match("^/[A-Za-z]+/", $_GET['textfield'])) { 
	$textfield = $_GET['textfield'];
}

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