[FX.php List] Problems w/ Internet Explorer 7 (submit via image)

[Dale Bengston]

I ran this through Google and found many others reporting the same  
problem with type="image". As IE7 gains market share, we'll see more  
and more of these glitches pop up, I'm sure.

Dale

On Feb 14, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I wanted to share something that bit me.  Maybe it'll be helpful  
> for someone else here.
>
> I just discovered a situation where submitting a form via an image  
> (a graphic 'button') doesn't work in Internet Explorer 7 (Windows)  
> even though it works fine in Firefox (both Win & Mac), Safari, IE 5  
> Mac, and I *think* IE6 Win, but can no longer test that since 7  
> overwrote 6.
>
> I've got a form where the submit button first checks JavaScript  
> validation and then proceeds to process.  I recently switched the  
> submit button to a graphic image, and that seems to have caused the  
> problem.  I don't claim that my code is perfect,  but IE7 (only)  
> was not passing the name of the form &/or was not passing a hidden  
> value with the POST -- until I switched back to input type="submit".
>
> I haven't tested all permutations of this, so I don't know if it's  
> the only thing going on, but I do know that the switch back fixed  
> the problem.  I did a quick google search for relevant IE7 problems  
> and found some with "<button>" but don't know if  that's relevant.   
> If I ever do more testing, I'll report back here.
>
>
> // the following did not work in IE7, although it works in other  
> browsers
> <input type="image" name="application"  value="submit" src="images/ 
> submit.gif">
>
> // but this seems to work fine in all browsers:
> <input type="submit" name="application" value="submit">
>
> // here's the form
> echo '<form method="post" action="application.php" name="form"  
> onsubmit="return validateForm(this)">
> 	<input type="hidden" name="app_pid" value="'.$pid.'">';
>
>
> // In my processing, I have:
> if( $_POST['application'] == 'submit' ) {
> 	$pid = $_POST['app_pid'];
> 	// process here
> } else {
> 	// error
> }
>
>
> In IE7, I was always getting the error w/ the image submit, but  
> when I changed back to the input type="submit", it worked fine.
>
>
> // FYI- In my javascript validation I have:
> function validateForm()    {
> if (document.form.NameFirst.value == "") {
> 	alert("Please provide a First Name.");
> 	document. form.NameFirst.focus();
> 	return false;
> 	}
> // (etc.)
>
>
>
> On a side note, IE7 also had a couple oddities in displaying text.   
> On one page, I have some text in a <div> box.  The last letter of  
> that text showed both in the original text, and also by itself just  
> outside the <div> box.  It was indeed the same letter twice, as  
> highlighting one of them in the browser highlighted the other at  
> the same time.  Odd...
>
> -Joel
>
>
> Joel Shapiro - FileMaker Pro Database Design
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