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    <p><b>Short version:</b> </p> <p>How can I have my form's button label text differ from the value submitted to the server <i>without</i> using the <code>&lt;button&gt;</code> tag?</p> <p><b>Long version:</b></p> <p>I wanted to have the text that appeared in a button in a form to be different than the value submitted in the query string. So, I looked around, and came across this approach...</p> <pre><code>&lt;button name="method" type="submit" value="repackage"&gt;Update Config&lt;/button&gt; </code></pre> <p>...and that worked on IE9 on one of my laptops and I was happy. The user saw "Update Config" and the server received <code>method=repackage</code> in the query string.</p> <p>Then I brought this app to work and ran it on a workstation, also with IE9. But something had gone wrong. The user still saw "Update Config", but the server now received <code>method=Update%20Config</code> in the query string.</p> <p>So I investigated some more. I found that www.w3schools.com recommmended not using a <code>&lt;button&gt;</code> tag in a form. They say: "If you use the <code>&lt;button&gt;</code> element in an HTML form, different browsers may submit different values. Use <code>&lt;input&gt;</code> to create buttons in an HTML form" in <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_button.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this article</a>. This seems to be what I am experiencing.</p> <p>So I looked some more, and found lots of conflicting information about the right way to do this. For example <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5701831/input-type-button-label-vs-value">here is a Stack Overflow post</a> that asks exactly this question, but the accepted answer is to use the <code>&lt;button&gt;</code> tag. I can say from experience and research that this is not a reliable approach.</p>
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