How To Use "submit" Input/Action Fields

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How To Use "submit" Input/Action Fields? - XHTML 1.0 Tutorials - Understanding Forms and Input Fields

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A "submit" input field is defined as <input type="submit" .../>. "submit" input fields can be used to create submit buttons in a form. When a submit button is clicked, the form will be closed and input data will be submitted to the processing program. "submit" input fields can also be specified with default values to be submitted like other input fields. There are other attributes you may need to use for a "submit" input field:

name="fieldName" - Specifies the name of this field.
value="buttonValue" - Specifies the value to be displayed on the submit button. The default is value="Submit Query".

Here is a tutorial example with 4 submit input fields:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
 <head>
  <title>Submit Button Input Fields</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <h4>Online Survey</h4>
  <form action="http://localhost/submit">
  <p style="background-color: #eeeeee; padding: 8px;">
   How did you find FYIcenter:<br/>
        <input type="radio" name="channel"
     value="google" checked="checked"/>Google search<br/>
        <input type="radio" name="channel"
     value="yahoo"/>Yahoo search<br/>
        <input type="radio" name="channel"
     value="friend"/>Your friend<br/>
   <input type="submit"/> 
   <input type="submit" value="Save"/> 
   <input type="submit" name="action" value="Submit"/> 
   <input type="submit" name="action" value="Cancel"/> 
  </p>
  </form>
 </body>
</html>

If you save the above document as submit_button.html, and view it with Internet Explorer, you will see a form with 4 submit buttons as shown below:

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