Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

[Scott Townsend]

I have a form that I allow the user to use the ALT-S key to submit.

I'd like to have just the S in the Submit button underlined, Is this
possible?

Thanks,
Scott<-

[Aaron Bertrand - MVP]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

Why is this an ASP question? ASP doesn't know what a button is.

<button><u>S</u>ubmit</button>

Please post future client-side questions to an HTML newsgroup...

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"Scott Townsend" <scott-i@.-N0-SPAMplease.enm. com> wrote in message
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> I have a form that I allow the user to use the ALT-S key to submit.
>
> I'd like to have just the S in the Submit button underlined, Is this
> possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott<-
>
>[/color]

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

Scott Townsend wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a form that I allow the user to use the ALT-S key to submit.
>
> I'd like to have just the S in the Submit button underlined, Is this
> possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott<-[/color]

I do not think this is possible. The text shown on a submit button is set in
the value attribute which can contain only characters (no style properties
....).

You could create an image and use the IMG tag as your Submit button ...

This is more of an HTML issue than as ASP issue so you may wish to ask on a
more HTML-focussed newsgroup.

HTH,
Bob Barrows

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[Scott Townsend]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

Thanks for the Tip.

"Aaron Bertrand - MVP" <aaron@TRASHasp faq.com> wrote in message
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> Why is this an ASP question? ASP doesn't know what a button is.
>
> <button><u>S</u>ubmit</button>
>
> Please post future client-side questions to an HTML newsgroup...
>
> --
> Aaron Bertrand
> SQL Server MVP
> http://www.aspfaq.com/
>
>
>
>
> "Scott Townsend" <scott-i@.-N0-SPAMplease.enm. com> wrote in message
> news:OWKu1tcPEH A.644@tk2msftng p13.phx.gbl...[color=green]
> > I have a form that I allow the user to use the ALT-S key to submit.
> >
> > I'd like to have just the S in the Submit button underlined, Is this
> > possible?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Scott<-
> >
> >[/color]
>
>[/color]

[Dave Anderson]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

Aaron Bertrand - MVP wrote:[color=blue]
> Why is this an ASP question? ASP doesn't know what a button is.
>
> <button><u>S</u>ubmit</button>[/color]

<U> is deprecated:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/changes.html#idx-deprecated

Fortunately, the same can be accomplished with styles. One example:

BUTTON DIV:first-letter { text-decoration:unde rline }
-- and --
<BUTTON><DIV>Su bmit</DIV></BUTTON>



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[Aaron Bertrand - MVP]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

> <U> is deprecated:

Oh come on now. Let's leave the HTML discussions to a more appropriate
forum. Next we'll be talking about how <button> isn't supported in Netscape
3.0.

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[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

Aaron Bertrand - MVP wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>> <U> is deprecated:[/color]
>
> Oh come on now. Let's leave the HTML discussions to a more
> appropriate forum. Next we'll be talking about how <button> isn't
> supported in Netscape
> 3.0.[/color]

:)
I wasn't even aware there WAS a <button> element. I assumed the OP was
asking about an <input> tag whose type was "submit".

Bob Barrows
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[Ray at]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?


"Dave Anderson" <GTSPXOESSGOQ@s pammotel.com> wrote in message
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>
> Fortunately, the same can be accomplished with styles. One example:
>
> BUTTON DIV:first-letter { text-decoration:unde rline }
> -- and --
> <BUTTON><DIV>Su bmit</DIV></BUTTON>[/color]

Isn't that :first-letter pseudo class only supported by Opera or something?

Ray at work

[Aaron Bertrand - MVP]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

You can hook any event to a <button>, a form submit, an alert();, a function
pickMyNose();, etc.

But let's stay on topic! "<u> is deprecated." I oughta... let me know when
you come across a browser that stops supporting the <u> tag.

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[color=blue]
> I wasn't even aware there WAS a <button> element. I assumed the OP was
> asking about an <input> tag whose type was "submit".[/color]

[Dave Anderson]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

Aaron Bertrand - MVP wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>> <U> is deprecated:[/color]
>
> Oh come on now. Let's leave the HTML discussions to a more
> appropriate forum. Next we'll be talking about how <button> isn't
> supported in Netscape
> 3.0.[/color]

Please.

Keeping an eye to the future is far different from bending over backward to
work in the past. Nobody uses Netscape 3 anymore, but all of us will use
future browsers. And deprecating <U> has been on the table for seven years:

http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/appendix/changes.html#h-13.1.1.2

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[Dave Anderson]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

Ray at <%=sLocation% > [MVP] wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Isn't that :first-letter pseudo class only supported by Opera or
> something?[/color]

No, and that would be irresponsible:

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#x52

IE6, Opera 7, and FireFox 0.8 all dig it. Oddly enough, they all /seem/ to
follow the standard for the pseudo-element. I half expected IE to allow it
on BUTTON, but IE seems to correctly restrict it to block-level elements.



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[Aaron Bertrand - MVP]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

> follow the standard for the pseudo-element. I half expected IE to allow it[color=blue]
> on BUTTON, but IE seems to correctly restrict it to block-level elements.[/color]

So your solution doesn't work for IE? ;-)

[Dave Anderson]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

Aaron Bertrand - MVP wrote:[color=blue]
>
> ...let me know when you come across a browser that stops
> supporting the <u> tag.[/color]

I know of plenty, if one of these is present:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">



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[Aaron Bertrand - MVP]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

Come on Dave, is this an ASP forum or not?

<bored of HTML crap>

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"Dave Anderson" <GTSPXOESSGOQ@s pammotel.com> wrote in message
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> Aaron Bertrand - MVP wrote:[color=green]
> >
> > ...let me know when you come across a browser that stops
> > supporting the <u> tag.[/color]
>
> I know of plenty, if one of these is present:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
>
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
>
>
>
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[Dave Anderson]

Re: Underline just the S in the Submit Button?

Aaron Bertrand - MVP wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>> follow the standard for the pseudo-element. I half expected IE to
>> allow it on BUTTON, but IE seems to correctly restrict it to
>> block-level elements.[/color]
>
> So your solution doesn't work for IE? ;-)[/color]

On the contrary. I never give solutions that don't work in IE, Mozilla AND
Opera -- at least not when there is a cross-browser solution or when I'm
qualifying it as such.

And my base standard isn't very high -- pretty much anything that will work
in IE 5 or Mozilla 1. That encompasses most of HTML4, CSS1, and DOM Level 1,
plus good chunks of DOM2/CSS2.

I should confess that I consider using deprecated elements no great sin.
Even if my browser doesn't see the underlined first letter, I am essentially
unaffected.



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