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    <p>If a form is submitted but not by any specific button, such as</p> <ul> <li>by pressing <kbd>Enter</kbd></li> <li>using <code>HTMLFormElement.submit()</code> in JS</li> </ul> <p>how is a browser supposed to determine which of multiple submit buttons, if any, to use as the one pressed?</p> <p>This is significant on two levels:</p> <ul> <li>calling an <code>onclick</code> event handler attached to a submit button</li> <li>the data sent back to the web server</li> </ul> <p>My experiments so far have shown that:</p> <ul> <li>when pressing <kbd>Enter</kbd>, Firefox, Opera and Safari use the first submit button in the form</li> <li>when pressing <kbd>Enter</kbd>, IE uses either the first submit button or none at all depending on conditions I haven't been able to figure out</li> <li>all these browsers use none at all for a JS submit</li> </ul> <p>What does the standard say?</p> <p>If it would help, here's my test code (the PHP is relevant only to my method of testing, not to my question itself)</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt; &lt;title&gt;Test&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;h1&gt;Get&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;dl&gt; &lt;?php foreach ($_GET as $k =&gt; $v) echo "&lt;dt&gt;$k&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;$v&lt;/dd&gt;"; ?&gt; &lt;/dl&gt; &lt;h1&gt;Post&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;dl&gt; &lt;?php foreach ($_POST as $k =&gt; $v) echo "&lt;dt&gt;$k&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;$v&lt;/dd&gt;"; ?&gt; &lt;/dl&gt; &lt;form name="theForm" method="&lt;?php echo isset($_GET['method']) ? $_GET['method'] : 'get'; ?&gt;" action="&lt;?php echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']; ?&gt;"&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="method" /&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="action" value="Button 1" onclick="alert('Button 1'); return true" /&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="stuff" /&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="action" value="Button 2" onclick="alert('Button 2'); return true" /&gt; &lt;input type="button" value="submit" onclick="document.theForm.submit();" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt; </code></pre>
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