CSS button in form

[meltedown]

Oh ye Gods of Style, I have been having fun making buttons with CSS:
<div class='cssnav2'>
<a href='#'
onClick="document.location.href='/catalog/index.php?brand=94'">
<img src='images/Scart_buttonl.jpg' alt='Continue Shopping' />
<span>Continue Shopping</span>
</a>
</div>

..cssnav2{
background-image:url(images/Gcart_buttonl2.jpg);
width: 180px;
}
..cssnav2 a:hover img{visibility:hidden}
..cssnav2 span {
position: relative;
float: left;
left: 5px;
top: -22px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
cursor: pointer;
width: 190px;
height: 14px;
text-align:center;
}


Now I want to use this technique for form submit buttons. Is this
possible ? How do I do it ?

Here is the button I want to replace:

<input type='hidden' name='login_create' value='yes'/>
<input type='image' src='images/Scart_create.jpg' name='login_new'>

When the user hits the button, the next page looks for 'login_create' to
equal 'yes'

[David Dorward]

meltedown wrote:

Oh ye Gods of Style, I have been having fun making buttons with CSS:
<div class='cssnav2'>
<a href='#'
onClick="document.location.href='/catalog/index.php?brand=94'">
Ye gads. What's wrong with href="/catalog/index.php?brand=94"?

And image replacement techniques have accessibility issues. You have an
image, it has alt text, what's wrong with that?
Now I want to use this technique for form submit buttons. Is this
possible ? How do I do it ? <input type='hidden' name='login_create' value='yes'/>
This is XHTML which doesn't conform to Appendix C and shouldn't be served as
text/html.
<input type='image' src='images/Scart_create.jpg' name='login_new'>
This is HTML.
When the user hits the button, the next page looks for 'login_create' to
equal 'yes'

What's wrong with the existing code? It works, its not presentational junk.
There is no need to move it into a stylesheet and have some people be
unable to access the content (and I mean the information, not any
particular rendering of it).

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

[Antoine Polatouche]

David Dorward wrote:

<input type='hidden' name='login_create' value='yes'/>

This is XHTML which doesn't conform to Appendix C and shouldn't be served as
text/html.

I don't understand this.
Which Appendix C?
Do you mean it's not valid XHTML?

[meltedown]

David Dorward wrote:

meltedown wrote:

Oh ye Gods of Style, I have been having fun making buttons with CSS:
<div class='cssnav2'>
<a href='#'
onClick="document.location.href='/catalog/index.php?brand=94'">

Ye gads. What's wrong with href="/catalog/index.php?brand=94"?

Good Point. I didn't write it, I'm using some one else's atrocious code,
and sometime they have javascript for reqasons I don't understand, so I
generally don't mess with it. But this deserves fixing. Thanks for the
tip. Thank for the tip.
And image replacement techniques have accessibility issues. You have an
image, it has alt text, what's wrong with that?
Well I'm making many many websites with the same code, and the buttons
need to be different for each website. If I have 10 buttons with 2
versions each for in and out states, that makes 20 buttons per website.
If I use replacement images I only need 2 buttons per website, one
foreach state. It works well except in forms. I'm tired of making
buttons, and I'm not aware of any problems. Besides, the CSS butotns
look better.

Now I want to use this technique for form submit buttons. Is this
possible ? How do I do it ?

<input type='hidden' name='login_create' value='yes'/>

This is XHTML which doesn't conform to Appendix C and shouldn't be served as
text/html.

<input type='image' src='images/Scart_create.jpg' name='login_new'>

Right Again
I combined them as
<input type='image' src='images/Scart_login.jpg' name='login_return'
value='yes'>
I see so much bogus code its hard to beleive the programmers were that
bad. The real bummer is it was written by people who make twice as much
as I do.

This is HTML.

When the user hits the button, the next page looks for 'login_create' to
equal 'yes'

What's wrong with the existing code? It works, its not presentational junk.
There is no need to move it into a stylesheet and have some people be
unable to access the content (and I mean the information, not any
particular rendering of it).

Are you talking about pre-ie5 ? I'm not worried about that.

[meltedown]

meltedown wrote:

David Dorward wrote:

meltedown wrote:

Oh ye Gods of Style, I have been having fun making buttons with CSS:
<div class='cssnav2'>
<a href='#'
onClick="document.location.href='/catalog/index.php?brand=94'">

Ye gads. What's wrong with href="/catalog/index.php?brand=94"?

Good Point. I didn't write it, I'm using some one else's atrocious code,
and sometime they have javascript for reqasons I don't understand, so I
generally don't mess with it. But this deserves fixing. Thanks for the
tip. Thank for the tip.

And image replacement techniques have accessibility issues. You have an
image, it has alt text, what's wrong with that?

Well I'm making many many websites with the same code, and the buttons
need to be different for each website. If I have 10 buttons with 2
versions each for in and out states, that makes 20 buttons per website.
If I use replacement images I only need 2 buttons per website, one
foreach state. It works well except in forms. I'm tired of making
buttons, and I'm not aware of any problems. Besides, the CSS butotns
look better.

Now I want to use this technique for form submit buttons. Is this
possible ? How do I do it ?

<input type='hidden' name='login_create' value='yes'/>

This is XHTML which doesn't conform to Appendix C and shouldn't be
served as
text/html.

<input type='image' src='images/Scart_create.jpg' name='login_new'>

Right Again
I combined them as
<input type='image' src='images/Scart_login.jpg' name='login_return'
value='yes'>
I see so much bogus code its hard to beleive the programmers were that
bad. The real bummer is it was written by people who make twice as much
as I do.

This is HTML.

When the user hits the button, the next page looks for 'login_create' to
equal 'yes'

What's wrong with the existing code? It works, its not presentational
junk.
There is no need to move it into a stylesheet and have some people be
unable to access the content (and I mean the information, not any
particular rendering of it).

Are you talking about pre-ie5 ? I'm not worried about that.

Also, the exisiting code has no up and down state. The rest of the page
has buttons with up and down states and I want them to match.

[Alan J. Flavell]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Antoine Polatouche wrote:

David Dorward wrote:

<input type='hidden' name='login_create' value='yes'/>

This is XHTML which doesn't conform to Appendix C and shouldn't be
served as text/html.

I don't understand this.
Which Appendix C?

If you don't know what's meant by "Appendix C" (of XHTML/1.0) then
what on Earth persuaded you to use XHTML in the first place? You'd be
far safer staying with HTML/4.01, unless and until you have an
overwhelming reason to use XHTML and understand clearly its
implications in a web situation.

IMHO, anyway. Oh, http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines

[Norman L. DeForest]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, meltedown wrote:

David Dorward wrote:

meltedown wrote:

Oh ye Gods of Style, I have been having fun making buttons with CSS:
<div class='cssnav2'>
<a href='#'
onClick="document.location.href='/catalog/index.php?brand=94'">

Ye gads. What's wrong with href="/catalog/index.php?brand=94"?

Good Point. I didn't write it, I'm using some one else's atrocious code,
and sometime they have javascript for reqasons I don't understand, so I
generally don't mess with it. But this deserves fixing. Thanks for the
tip. Thank for the tip.

This should do the same as the original for those with JavaScript support
(and have it turned on) and still work for those with JavaScript turned
off or with no JavaScript support at all:

<a href='/catalog/index.php?brand=94'
onClick="document.location.href='/catalog/index.php?brand=94';return false">

Actually they should both do the same thing but it's remotely possible
that the JavaScript version is treated differently in some browsers'
history files.

And image replacement techniques have accessibility issues. You have an
image, it has alt text, what's wrong with that?

Well I'm making many many websites with the same code, and the buttons
need to be different for each website. If I have 10 buttons with 2
versions each for in and out states, that makes 20 buttons per website.
If I use replacement images I only need 2 buttons per website, one
foreach state. It works well except in forms. I'm tired of making
buttons, and I'm not aware of any problems. Besides, the CSS butotns
look better.

Try them with Lynx.

Now I want to use this technique for form submit buttons. Is this
possible ? How do I do it ?

<input type='hidden' name='login_create' value='yes'/>

This is XHTML which doesn't conform to Appendix C and shouldn't be served as
text/html.

<input type='image' src='images/Scart_create.jpg' name='login_new'>

Right Again
I combined them as
<input type='image' src='images/Scart_login.jpg' name='login_return'
value='yes'>
I see so much bogus code its hard to beleive the programmers were that
bad. The real bummer is it was written by people who make twice as much
as I do.

This is HTML.

When the user hits the button, the next page looks for 'login_create' to
equal 'yes'

What's wrong with the existing code? It works, its not presentational junk.
There is no need to move it into a stylesheet and have some people be
unable to access the content (and I mean the information, not any
particular rendering of it).

Are you talking about pre-ie5 ? I'm not worried about that.

If content is moved into a stylesheet it's inaccessible to Lynx users.

--
``Why don't you find a more appropiate newsgroup to post this tripe into?
This is a meeting place for a totally differnt kind of "vision impairment".
Catch my drift?'' -- "jim" in alt.disability.blind.social regarding an
off-topic religious/political post, March 28, 2005