html button v.s. html submit?

Question

I have an input text box and a search submit button, and when user clicks the Search submit button, I want to redirect user to url http://testsearch/results.aspx?k=<

Answer 1

means "put a button in the page and do whatever the onclick event says". So if you don't write an onclick handler the page doesn't do nothing.

If you use submit is ok, because you want to redirect to another page.

If you want to use button anyway you can do this way:

Warning: submit button with onclick

If you have a submit button (inside a form, it is, a working submit button) with an onclick event, some browsers will:

1) execute onclick

2) execute submit

your onclick tries to redirect but the submit button wins.

If you want to avoid it you have some options:

a) change submit button to normal button

b) avoid the submit thing (add onsubmit="return false;" to form element)

c) use the submit procedure (form action="..." method="get", no onclick event), the browser will be happy and you can control the submit in the onsubmit event (you can cancel it or not).