Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 06/09/07 22:02

Scripsit bermetj@NOSPAMgmail.com:

> Dorayme, thank you for suggestion, however I was more looking for a
> way to disable the Submit button's functionality while keeping it
> there.

I was almost about to reveal you the answer, but you continued foolish
upside-down fullquoting, even so that make a fool of yourself by quoting
this:

>> (Please do not top post here, I have corrected above on this
>> occasion)

Oh well, some people have already told you the answer, and I can't undo
that.

So I might just as well help _others_ who might have some legitimate reason
for creating buttons that act as local links: Using <form
action="foo.html"><input type="submit" value="link text"></form> is indeed a
simple way to achieve that. And using CSS, with form { display: inline },
you can even turn it into a text-level element in presentation.

You could alternatively use

<form action="foo.html">
<button type="submit">link text</button>
</form>

which lets you use markup inside the link text. On the other hand, <button>
is not as universally supported as <input>.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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