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Multiple Submit Buttons in Form
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat La Claire)
Tue Nov 7 13:51:22 1995
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 95 10:37:36 PST
From: excalib!sparcy!pat@ucsd.edu (Pat La Claire)
To: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Cc: sparcy!efsweb@eddie.mit.edu
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
I have recently come across multiple submit buttons within a
single <FORM> in an HTML page. I had read somewhere that this
was *not* allowed (not supported, not recommended) with HTML 3.0.
I have run tests with Netscape 1.1, Netscape 2.0 Beta 1, Mosaic 2.0.1
and MacWeb 1.1.1E (all on a Mac), and Netscape Navigator 1.2N on a
PC, and Netscape Navigator 1.1N on a Sparcstation. All succeeded
parsing multiple submits.
Am I wrong about this being unsupported by the HTML standard?
Is anyone aware whether it *will* be supported in the near future?
How many of you currently use multiple submits within a FORM?
What are your opinions in doing so (knowing that it is not supported)?
Anything I didn't ask, which you believe I should consider?
Thanks in advance,
Pat Larkin La Claire
pat@excalib.com
Excalibur Technologies
