[Javascript] Re: (OT) IE support for input type="image" / a possible workaround of sorts

Reuben D. Budiardja reubendb at innovativethought.com
Tue Jun 8 10:50:36 CDT 2004


On Tuesday 08 June 2004 11:12 am, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> shawn_milochik at godivachoc.com wrote:
> > I think I missed something in the beginning of this thread.  Why would
> > anyone go to any trouble
> > to make <input type="image"> work, when <img src=""> is the standard?
>
> IMG is for images, INPUT is for forms -- how is that not clear? And
> it shouldn't be a matter of "making" <input type="image"> work*, as
> it's been "standard" from 4.01:
>
>    <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#edef-INPUT>
>
> * IE's incomplete standards support notwithstanding :-)

Thank you. That's what I thought too. From my reading of the 4.01 HTML 
recommendation, I was just unsure if it should support Value attributes in 
it. But then what's the point of having input type if you can't have value.

Thanks
RDB

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