Re: [TCLUG:19192] [OT] snazzy HTML forms

[Daniel Taylor <dante@plethora.net>]

Uh, that is what POST and GET are for. Straight HTML.
I like Clay's idea of throwing an image over the button, that
can really clean up the look of a page (check NASDAQ for a sample
of a page that does it that way).

Daniel Taylor                Yoda of borg we are, futile resistance is,
dante@plethora.net           assimilated you will be, hmmm!

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Jeff Hallgren wrote:

> Yeah... lynx doesn't do javascript urls, I guess having javascript is a
> really bad assumption.
> The other problem is that you don't know the contents of a form element
> before the user fills it in so you can't contruct the proper query
> string ahead of time. You have to use javascript at some point. Unless
> you don't actually have any form elements and then you don't need a form
> in the first place.
> Works in Netscape & Mozilla, should work in Opera with EcmaScript 1.1
> (but I didn't try it cuz it kept crashing on start up).
> 
> jeff
> 
> Daniel Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > You are correct, but this method will not work with non-Javascript enabled
> > browsers.  Safe for Windows, but a bad assumption on Linux.
> > 
> > Daniel Taylor                Yoda of borg we are, futile resistance is,
> > dante@plethora.net           assimilated you will be, hmmm!
> > 
> > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Jeff Hallgren wrote:
> > 
> > > another way to do it is to use a javascript url like this:
> > > <a href="javascript:document.myForm.submit();">Click Here</a>
> > >
> > > or to invoke a javascript function that does pretty much the same
> > > thing..
> > > <a href="javascript:aFunctionToSubmitForm();">Click There</a>
> > >
> > > jeff
> > >
> > >
> > > Timothy Wilson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hey everyone,
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to make an HTML form look like a normal link? I have a
> > > > one-button, no input "form," but I don't want the clunky "Submit" button.
> > > > Alternatively, is there a way to put the submit button in-line with other
> > > > text?
> > > >
> > > > -Tim
> > > >
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