john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote on 2004-11-24 12:10: > I've a form with an input type="image", a value, and a name: ... > According to the W3C 'value' is optional in this case. Does that mean > it's optional to us as developers, or it's optional whether the > browsers support it? Optinal for the browsers (user agents). > And if 'value' isn't supported, I can't even seem to get PHP to work > with those p.x type values. Using (isset($_GET["p.x"])) doesn't seem > to work. PHP converts teh dots to underscores[0] , so use (isset($_GET["p_x"])) .k [0] http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php#language.variables.external.form.submit