Comments on: It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature… No, It Really Is. Microsoft vs. Linux

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:22:57 +0000

Interesting, I have to test in all common browsers and it’s a real pain. One “feature” (bug) of Firefox I’m having problems with is vaguely related to this. If I have a button (not submit, just a ) within a form, no matter what the onclick is for that button firefox will submit the form, IE doesn’t, it just does what the button told it to do, which is what I would expect. The only fix to this is to move the button outside the form in the code, but then I have positioning problems.

By: Tye

Tye — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:48:24 +0000

Thanks for the article.

@Mem : IE does not handle one text field and one button on a form. Checkout. Use a CSS hack to place another field and set the style to
style=”visibility:hidden;display:none;”

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/010908-1.aspx

I thought I would throw this in here since it took me a couple of months to find a non-javascript solution.

By: memomg

memomg — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:45:22 +0000

mem: If you can’t get a form with one field and one button to work in both browsers, your solution is “user error”.

By: Chandresh Kumar Chhatlani

Chandresh Kumar Chhatlani — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:21:47 +0000

I am developing form, with a TextBox, one SelectBox and one SUBMIT button.

It is submitting on pressing enter key, and respective alerts are displaying from JavaScript. But after JavaScript, browser sets the value of Submit Button to Null in next ASP Code.

Hence Record could not be saved.

Why? Any Idea.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:27:32 +0000

Just want to add that if you have more than one input text fields, then IE will submit the form with the 1st submit button value.
So, it is inconsistent behavior for IE itself.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:44:26 +0000

“chances are, the rest of what the Linux fan-base complains about with Microsoft falls exactly along these lines.”

“Iâ€™m all for GNU/Linux, just not mindless accusations and false claims.”

Know yourself.

By: JRM

JRM — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:05:47 +0000

Yeah, I basically agree with the original post, enter shouldn’t by default do anything on a web page. It would be cool to have an attribute specify enter as a hotkey or something, but it makes me mad when there are behaviors like that, especially when they are not expected, you end up submitting half formed items, and getting yelled at for not filling in all items etc. when all you did was accidentally hit enter. If the button has the focus, enter can make submit, that works for me.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:53:17 +0000

Firefox also has issues and with a growing user base will have the same exact problems as IE, probably more so.

By: bro

bro — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:44:32 +0000

I couldn’t care less about this particular feature/bugg. But your basis assumption: “chances are…”
I mean please…. there is So Mucht Against IE from the screwing with Javascript to their CSS implementations… You don’t actually believe what you write do you?

By: Lasse

Lasse — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:06:03 +0000

aaahhh that most ancient of questions… the form-enter-no-go-ie-problem.
such a simple fix:

that was for mem. now on the point of multiple form submissions with ie:
brilliant! the only safe and useful thing microsoft have done ;-)