form with to submits, which one to default to? - PHP

jodleren wrote:
> Hi
>
> Say, I have a form.
>
> Both cancel and save (in that order) are submits, then in the code I
> check which button was pressed.
> The point is that I want the save button (2nd) to be default, not the
> cancel.
>
> Is there a way (in js?) to "focus" the other button?
>
> One other way to be some simple js, which submits the page anyway...
>
> WBR
> Sonnich
>

Try a JS newsgroup. This one is for PHP - which can't do it.

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..oO(jodleren)

>Say, I have a form.
>
>Both cancel and save (in that order) are submits, then in the code I
>check which button was pressed.
>The point is that I want the save button (2nd) to be default, not the
>cancel.
>
>Is there a way (in js?) to "focus" the other button?

No. But why do you need a cancel button at all? Usually it's as useless
as a reset button.

>One other way to be some simple js, which submits the page anyway...

Even worse and unreliable.

Micha

> Both cancel and save (in that order) are submits, then in the code I
> check which button was pressed.
> The point is that I want the save button (2nd) to be default, not the
> cancel.
>
> Is there a way (in js?) to "focus" the other button?


As a dirty hack, you could make the second button come first in the HTML
and flip it over with a stylesheet.

Good luck

On Dec 4, 10:12 am, Dikkie Dik <dik...@nospam.org> wrote:
> > Both cancel and save (in that order) are submits, then in the code I
> > check which button was pressed.
> > The point is that I want the save button (2nd) to be default, not the
> > cancel.
>
> > Is there a way (in js?) to "focus" the other button?
>
> As a dirty hack, you could make the second button come first in the HTML
> and flip it over with a stylesheet.
>
> Good luck

HTML supports tabindex="#".
That ought to do.