IE bug??

[johnstas]

This is freaking me out.

I've got a form. Two buttons.
<button type="submit" name="submit" value="add">Add</button>
<button type="submit" name="submit" value="edit">Edit</button>

the "add" button is clicked...

In all browsers, other than IE, we see
$_POST = Array ( [submit] => add )

but in IE, we see
$_POST = Array( [submit] => edit )

IE always grabs the last button value.

If you try to rename the buttons, like so...
<button type="submit" name="add" value="add">Add</button>
<button type="submit" name="edit" value="edit">Edit</button>

IE returns both values in the post...
$POST = $POST = Array( [add] => add, [edit]=> edit)

Am I the only one encountering this. I've googled all over, and I can't find anyone else talking about this behavior.

[devinemke]

FWIW, this code will work as expected if you use the INPUT tag instead of the BUTTON tag.

[johnstas]

yeah, i know the input tag works fine. I was trying to avoid using it for this reason.

Using css, I usually set a default width for input, select, and textarea. What happens is the buttons are also set to the default width, generally making the button far to large.
I thought <button> would be a good alternative so I wasn't setting a class for every button on my site. Which isn't bad, but I'm lazy and was hoping for an easier way.

Any easy method to setting all buttons to their default sizes via css?

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by johnstas
Any easy method to setting all buttons to their default sizes via css?

Well, there's
input[type="button"],input[type="submit"] - but that doesn't work on IE, either 🙂🙁

[johnstas]

yeah, I tried the input[type="submit"], but well what do you know, IE can't do another thing.

IE makes my job so hard.