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Re: Distinguishing between submit buttons
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lilley)
Tue Mar 7 13:20:02 1995
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 12:30:24 +0500
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Reply-To: lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk
From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
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Rupesh said
> Would someone know on how to distinguish between two submit buttons
> in the same form. In my application, one of them is for "Browse", while
> the other one is for "Submit". the CGI script has to take different
> actions for the two. Can't put browse in a separate form as both buttons
> need some common fields.
Use different name attributes for the two submit buttons:
<input type=submit name="browse" value="Browse...">
<input type=submit name="submit" value="Submit form">
You will get the name=value pair for a named submit button, so you can tell
which one was pressed.
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