[FX.php List] Form will not submit with IE browser

Gjermund Gusland Thorsen ggt667 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 17:13:14 MDT 2008


Every time I hade that bug that naming of the the action was bad,

<form action="" method="post">

is not a very popular thing in ie. action="" usually seems for other
browsers to mean the current URI, in other words; self.

ggt667

2008/9/25 Leo R. Lundgren <leo at finalresort.org>:
> May I also suggest using Firefox along with Firebug. The latter is a really
> useful and powerful tool when developing for the web. In this specific case
> you could look at how Firefox parses the DOM (i.e. if there are open tags or
> other problems; If there are you will notice). But there are tons of other
> useful features as well.
>
> 25 sep 2008 kl. 01.05 skrev Tim 'Webko' Booth:
>
>> Dear John,
>>>
>>
>> Every time I've had this issue, there was a html issue. Use
>> http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ - it has saved me more times than I
>> care to think...
>>
>>> Jonathan's question is good too (I take back almost everything I ever
>>> said about him); Safari seems to be more forgiving with things like that
>>> than IE. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but IE isn't using the latest W3C
>>> specs as closely as Safari & Firefox (but that may have changed in IE 7).
>>
>> Not really. Again, the number of pages I've had to 'hack' in order to make
>> things work on IE is astonishing. I loathe either being forced to use tables
>> for layout (when I'm in a hurry) or creating IE specific CSS (when I have
>> more time) in order to make stuff work properly.
>>
>> And 7 goes into it's 'quirks' mode far too readily, effectively making it
>> act like IE6 on a lot of pages.
>>
>> </rant>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Webko
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