hyper link is not working as expected.need help!!

[rahullko05]

i am using this code in one of my .php file:

<a href="thanks.ph p" onclick = "return registerUser(){ return false;}"> <input type="button" name="userText" value="Submit" id="memberRegis teration" /> </a>

i am facing 2 problems here:
1) button is not shown as hyper link when mouse is hovered over it?
2) even when i am explicitely returning false on onclick function call, it goes to thanks.php page?

thanks,
Rahul

[Dormilich]

out of interest, why do you combine a button and a link? wouldn't be a single button sufficient?

[rahullko05]

i combined button and link together, because this button is not of submit type. also because i am not just submitting data to server but based on whether it passes or fails i am moving to another page, which i believe can be done via using anchor tag around button.

please suggest if there is any workaround for this?

[Dormilich]

use only the button and if the input is valid, use window.location .href in your script to get to the next page.