Multiple Submit buttons

[J. B. Moreno]

Is it possible to detect inside an onsubmit event /which/ button was
pushed? I searched google and saw lots of suggestions for alternatives,
but nobody outright saying it was impossible. At this point I just want to
know....I'll worry about compatibility and other issues, later...

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J.B.Moreno

[Martin Honnen]

Re: Multiple Submit buttons



J. B. Moreno wrote:
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> Is it possible to detect inside an onsubmit event /which/ button was
> pushed? I searched google and saw lots of suggestions for alternatives,
> but nobody outright saying it was impossible.[/color]

If you add onclick handlers to the submit buttons to store the actual
submit button e.g.
<form
onsubmit="if (this.submitBut ton.name == 'submit1') ..."
...>

<input type="submit" name="submit1"
onclick="this.f orm.submitButto n = this;
return true;">

then your code knows which button was clicked but without that it is not
possible.


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Martin Honnen

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[J. B. Moreno]

Re: Multiple Submit buttons

Martin.Honnen@g mx.de wrote:[color=blue]
> J. B. Moreno wrote:
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> > Is it possible to detect inside an onsubmit event /which/ button was
> > pushed? I searched google and saw lots of suggestions for
> > alternatives, but nobody outright saying it was impossible.[/color]
>
> If you add onclick handlers to the submit buttons to store the actual
> submit button e.g.[/color]
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> then your code knows which button was clicked but without that it is not
> possible.[/color]

Thanks. Very clear. I wonder why not, seems like it'd be an obvious
thing....

Anyway, thanks again. Now I can stop trying to find out how to do it...

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J.B.Moreno