Two Submits - One Form - OK FF not IE

[w424637]

I thought this would be simple

I am submitting a form and on it are these two buttons and this works fine in Firefox:

<input type="submit" name="stay" value="Submit" />

<a href="live_summary.php"><input type="button" value="Back"  /></a>

However this does not work in IE and pressing the Back button simply refreshes the page as though submitted.

any ideas.
Simon

[w424637]

In fact in IE it does nothing

[bregent]

What do you want the button to do? You haven't included any js which is required if you want the browser to move back a page.

[w424637]

Well simply I have a Form -

One drop down list and Two Buttons.

One Button is Submit - so user makes a change to the dropo down and submits form etc.

Two Button is Back - They hit this and go back to the previous report.

The below works in FF with no Javascript? why not IE

S

[Guest · Accepted solution]

When you wrap a link around a button, IE and FF behaves differently. FF prioritize the link (<a href... tag), But IE prioritize the button, which does nothing unless you put some javasctipt on it.

You can tie the button to Javascript, so both FF and IE will be happy:

<input type="button" value="Back" onclick="location.href='live_summary.php'"  />