Comments on: Firefox 4 change: input type image only submits x and y, not name when clicked. Keyboard as before

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:43:40 +0000

Thank’s Kurt, the button issue is the solution I needed…

By: Matt Willis

Matt Willis — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:10:33 +0000

I had this issue with submit just after updating to Firefox 4. My workaround was a little more simple (in my opinion)…it also works across the browsers. I just made the submit button into just that…a button.
Notice the class. I didn’t like the automatic styling that the browsers give to buttons so I stripped the background, margin, padding, and border in a simple style sheet. Now it works just great! Hope this helps someone!

By: Kurt Zoglmann

Kurt Zoglmann — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:25:34 +0000

My example failed to post the HTML, but you can get an idea of the solution by using button and looking at the web page below.

http://webdesign.about.com/od/htmltags/p/bltags_button.htm

By: Kurt Zoglmann

Kurt Zoglmann — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:23:18 +0000

A quick fix is to use the button attribute…

before:

after:

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:26:26 +0000

Thx! Now I know why my form didn’t work!

By: Anup Shah

Anup Shah — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:54:39 +0000

That was quick. The bug was marked as invalid because their behaviour follows the HTML 5 spec, whereas I was looking at the HTML 4.01 spec…

This is the comment in the bug report:

However, our behavior is correct according to HTML5, which we’re tracking:
http://www.whatwg.org/html/#form-submission-algorithm, step 7, substep 3 requires just image-button.x and image-button.y to be appended to the /form data set/, which will be submitted.

It looks like the specification follows IE and Opera in this case. If you’d like to see this changed, please submit a bug to
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=HTML%20WG, component “HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)”, or send an email to whatwg@whatwg.org.

Given IE (and Opera) do it this way anyway while webkit and gecko did not, I guess it was choosing one way or the other and with IE being still so popular many existing sites might not break as a result…

So one of the above workarounds it is then… or ponder on whether it is worth getting this changed…?

So, updating title to reflect this is a change to be aware of…!