Multiple Submit buttons

[J. B. Moreno]

Is it possible to detect inside an onsubmit event /which/ button was
pushed? I searched google and saw lots of suggestions for alternatives,
but nobody outright saying it was impossible. At this point I just want to
know....I'll worry about compatibility and other issues, later...

 

[Martin Honnen]

Is it possible to detect inside an onsubmit event /which/ button was
pushed? I searched google and saw lots of suggestions for alternatives,
but nobody outright saying it was impossible.

If you add onclick handlers to the submit buttons to store the actual
submit button e.g.
<form
onsubmit="if (this.submitButton.name == 'submit1') ..."
...>

<input type="submit" name="submit1"
onclick="this.form.submitButton = this;
return true;">

then your code knows which button was clicked but without that it is not
possible.

 

[J. B. Moreno]

If you add onclick handlers to the submit buttons to store the actual
submit button e.g. -snip-
then your code knows which button was clicked but without that it is not
possible.

Thanks. Very clear. I wonder why not, seems like it'd be an obvious
thing....

Anyway, thanks again. Now I can stop trying to find out how to do it...