Image Button and Post Method Help

[Ralph Freshour]

I'm trying to use an image as a submit button - I'm reading Sams Teach
Yourself HTML and the chapter on this doesn't show me the details on
how this is done - I mean I can't seem to see it or grasp how this
works?

I see the tag for the image and I assume I need a form get or post
line but how are the two connected so the clicking on the image button
activates the post method?

Thanks...

[???????? ??????? ???????]

"Ralph Freshour" <ralph@primemail.com> wrote in message:
news:ekfuivkgnmak2c2i632nqems34lfd4ldag@4ax.com...

> I'm trying to use an image as a submit button - I'm reading Sams Teach
> Yourself HTML and the chapter on this doesn't show me the details on
> how this is done - I mean I can't seem to see it or grasp how this
> works?
>
> I see the tag for the image and I assume I need a form get or post
> line but how are the two connected so the clicking on the image button
> activates the post method?
>
> Thanks...
>

I hope this will work for you:

<a href="javascript:document.formname.submit()">
<img src='button.gif' alt='button' border=0></a>

-
Kindest Regards,
Olexiy Merenkov
[url]http://www.merenkov.com/olexiy[/url]

[Ralph Freshour]

I don't understand what this js code does:

<a href="javascript:document.formname.submit()">

Don't I need a method post statement in my form?
I have several graphical image 'buttons' - when the form is submitted
how will the called .php script know which 'button' was clicked on?


On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 13:04:27 +0300, "???????? ??????? ???????"
<alex@zaporizhstal.com> wrote:

>
>"Ralph Freshour" <ralph@primemail.com> wrote in message:
>news:ekfuivkgnmak2c2i632nqems34lfd4ldag@4ax.com.. .

>> I'm trying to use an image as a submit button - I'm reading Sams Teach
>> Yourself HTML and the chapter on this doesn't show me the details on
>> how this is done - I mean I can't seem to see it or grasp how this
>> works?
>>
>> I see the tag for the image and I assume I need a form get or post
>> line but how are the two connected so the clicking on the image button
>> activates the post method?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>

>
>I hope this will work for you:
>
><a href="javascript:document.formname.submit()">
><img src='button.gif' alt='button' border=0></a>
>
>-
>Kindest Regards,
>Olexiy Merenkov
>[url]http://www.merenkov.com/olexiy[/url]
>

[Chris Morris]

Ralph Freshour <ralph@primemail.com> writes:

> <alex@zaporizhstal.com> wrote:

> >"Ralph Freshour" <ralph@primemail.com> wrote in message:

> >> I'm trying to use an image as a submit button - I'm reading Sams Teach

> >
> >I hope this will work for you:

It doesn't work for me.

> ><a href="javascript:document.formname.submit()">
> ><img src='button.gif' alt='button' border=0></a>

>
> I don't understand what this js code does:
>
> <a href="javascript:document.formname.submit()">

It, in browsers with Javascript enabled, possibly submits the form
where the opening <form> tag has the name attribute name="formname".

In browsers with Javascript disabled it does absolutely nothing, apart
from really winding up the user when they discover the form won't
submit. This is a bigger problem with longer forms.

For a better solution, you should read
[url]http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/index.html[/url]
and especially
[url]http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/imagebutton.html[/url]

> Don't I need a method post statement in my form?

<form method="post" action="submittothis.php">

You don't necessarily need it, forms *can* be submitted with 'get'
instead, though whether you *should* or not depends on what the form does.

> I have several graphical image 'buttons' - when the form is submitted
> how will the called .php script know which 'button' was clicked on?

[url]http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/www/trysub.html[/url]

--
Chris

[RG]

"Ralph Freshour" <ralph@primemail.com> wrote in message
news:ekfuivkgnmak2c2i632nqems34lfd4ldag@4ax.com...

> I'm trying to use an image as a submit button - I'm reading Sams Teach
> Yourself HTML and the chapter on this doesn't show me the details on
> how this is done - I mean I can't seem to see it or grasp how this
> works?
>
> I see the tag for the image and I assume I need a form get or post
> line but how are the two connected so the clicking on the image button
> activates the post method?
>
> Thanks...
>

<input type="image" border="0" src="images/login.gif" alt="Trade Login">
RG

[Ralph Freshour]

OK, I got it to work and now when I click on one of my image 'buttons'
I can detect which one - however, now I'm reading and trying to see
how to call the correct php script based on what was clicked on.

On my home page I call via post method a dispatch.php script and in
that script I detect which button was clicked on - how do I just call
another php script? For example, if I click on Create I would need to
call the create.php script, if I click on Delete I need to call
delete.php

Thanks...


On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 08:46:32 -0700, "RG" <Me@NotTellingYa.com> wrote:

>
>"Ralph Freshour" <ralph@primemail.com> wrote in message
>news:ekfuivkgnmak2c2i632nqems34lfd4ldag@4ax.com.. .

>> I'm trying to use an image as a submit button - I'm reading Sams Teach
>> Yourself HTML and the chapter on this doesn't show me the details on
>> how this is done - I mean I can't seem to see it or grasp how this
>> works?
>>
>> I see the tag for the image and I assume I need a form get or post
>> line but how are the two connected so the clicking on the image button
>> activates the post method?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>

>
>
><input type="image" border="0" src="images/login.gif" alt="Trade Login">
>RG
>
>
>

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What should i write in the javascript which is connected to the button.