[RESOLVED] Submit button link doesn't work...why?

forsooth

Good evening,

Using localhost.

I placed this on a VERY simple test page:

<form method = "link" action = "http://www.google.com"
   <input type = "submit" />
</form>

Click on the submit button and it works!

BUT, when I place the same code on a page in a website I'm working on, it doesn't work. Nothing happens. Is it obvious as to why this should be the case?

Thanks!

bradgrafelman

Well for one, "link" isn't a valid form method.

EDIT: Can you post the simplest HTML example that exhibits the problem you're seeing?

forsooth

Thanks for the reply.

That is interesting, because I tried to verify the form method of "link", but I could only find "get" and "post," but I figured I didn't understand because I sort of got the main idea of the code from here:

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/buttons/article.php/3478871/page1.htm

Wait...I just went back to see if there was anything more helpful I could post, and I saw that I had gotten a </form> tag out of place (ast another location on the page). Changed that, so the submit-link is now working.

Thanks!

bradgrafelman

No idea what that page is talking about... there is no "link" method, and by default browsers will fall back to using "GET" as a form method. Thus, you'd get the same result if you replaced "link" with "GET", which is a valid form method according to the W3C.

EDIT: Just for reference, here is the relative W3C info.

forsooth

Thank you for explaining about "get" as the default. Very helpful.