Making anchors to submit

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boris Popov
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 4:04 PM
> To: 'Seaside - general discussion'
> Subject: RE: [Seaside] Making anchors to submit
>
> While it is certainly doable with anchors, I haven't actually tried it
> myself. It is preferred to use proper submit buttons AFAIAC anyway as
> highlighted by the whole GWA debacle,
>
> http://shiflett.org/blog/2006/dec/google-web-accelerator-debate
>
> Instead you can style submit buttons to suit your needs, see attached

> what we use in our application as well as the following,
>
> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/button/btn_example05.html
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> -Boris
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [hidden email] [mailto:seaside-
> > [hidden email]] On Behalf Of Sebastian Sastre
> > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 3:50 PM
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> > Subject: [Seaside] Making anchors to submit
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > the submit buttons look change from system to system but anchors

> > consistent so I'm trying to use anchors to submit forms by using
> >
> > html anchor
> > callback:[self someAction];
> > submitFormNamed: 'someFormId';
> > yourslef
> >
> > Is anybody using anchors with #submitFormNamed: succesfully?
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Sebastian
> > PS: amazingly it works as expected with IE but not in FF, nor Opera

> Hi there,
>
> the submit buttons look change from system to system but anchors
> are consistent so I'm trying to use anchors to submit forms by using
>
> html anchor
> callback:[self someAction];
> submitFormNamed: 'someFormId';
> yourslef
>
> Is anybody using anchors with #submitFormNamed: succesfully?
>
> cheers,
>
> Sebastian
> PS: amazingly it works as expected with IE but not in FF, nor Opera
> nor Safari for windows
>
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> Hi there,
>
> the submit buttons look change from system to system but anchors are
> consistent so I'm trying to use anchors to submit forms by using
>
> html anchor
> callback:[self someAction];
> submitFormNamed: 'someFormId';
> yourslef
>
> Is anybody using anchors with #submitFormNamed: succesfully?
>
> cheers,
>
> Sebastian
> PS: amazingly it works as expected with IE but not in FF, nor Opera nor
> Safari for windows
>  

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: [hidden email]
> [mailto:[hidden email]] En nombre
> de Michael Lucas-Smith
> Enviado el: Martes, 11 de Diciembre de 2007 03:23
> Para: Seaside - general discussion
> Asunto: Re: [Seaside] Making anchors to submit
>
> Sebastian Sastre wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > the submit buttons look change from system to system
> but anchors are
> > consistent so I'm trying to use anchors to submit forms by using
> >
> > html anchor
> > callback:[self someAction];
> > submitFormNamed: 'someFormId';
> > yourslef
> >
> > Is anybody using anchors with #submitFormNamed: succesfully?
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Sebastian
> > PS: amazingly it works as expected with IE but not in FF, nor Opera
> > nor Safari for windows
> >  
> On the other mailing list we came to the conclusion that the
> method should be removed. FF, Opera and Safari all perform
> the POST asynchronously - there's no way to tell it to run
> synchronously. As such, you're better off using the form
> XmlHttpRequest calls supplied by Mootools, Prototype, etc...
> or simply use a real button and style it to look like a link
> (if that's what you're actually after).
>
> You can do that with styling along the lines of:
>
> button { border: none; text-decoration: underline; background-color:
> none; color: blue }
>
> I didn't doubt check this in a browser, just going off the
> top of my head here... so if it isn't quite right, just
> fiddle and play until it looks the way you want it too.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
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> Lukas Renggli wrote:
> >> Yes I'll try styling submit buttons like anchors. Other anchors only
> >> underline while a:hover so my style challenge for that submit button will be
> >> that. But I think a mouseover and mouse out adding and removing a custom css
> >> class could do it.
> >>
> >
> > Why not use the implicit :hover pseudo-class?
> >
> Since it's not an anchor tag, IE6 won't use the :hover pseudo-class
> unless you load the IE7 javascript pack to make IE6 behave more like
> IE7... that said, you can possibly ignore this problem and pretend it's
> okay... or use javascript mouseover/mouseout to simulate the :hover.
>
> Personally, I'd just use the :hover pseudo-class and not worry about IE6-.

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> > >> underline while a:hover so my style challenge for that submit

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