BUTTON

Description

The <BUTTON> element can be used to create HTML buttons that are embedded into the document. The text between the start and end tages is as the label within the button.

Syntax

<BUTTON
ACCESSKEY=string
CLASS=Style Sheet class name
DATAFLD=colname
DATAFORMATAS=HTML | TEXT
DATASRC=#ID
DISABLED
ID=value
LANG=language
LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT | JSCRIPT | VBSCRIPT | VBS
STYLE=styling
TITLE=text content
TYPE=BUTTON | RESET | SUBMIT
event = script
>

Parameter

Description

ACCESSKEY

Specifies an accelerator for the element. Pressing alt-key selects this element in the user's browser.

CLASS

Class of the tag being defined. This is used to associate a subclassed style sheet with the tag.

DATAFLD

Column name from the data source object that supplies the bound data.

DATAFORMATAS

Indicates whether the bound data is HTML or plain text.

DATASRC

ID of the data source object that supplies the data that is bound to this element.

DISABLED

Used to disable an element. This means it won't respond to user input, or take the users focus, and causes the element to appear "grayed out."

ID

SGML identifier used as the target for hypertext links or for naming particular elements in associated style sheets. Valid ID values must begin with a letter. The underscore character, "_", may be used in the ID name. The ID should be unique throughout the scope of the document. If more than one object with the same identifier exists in a document, a collection of those named items is created that can only be referenced by ordinal position.

LANG

Specifies which language to use in ISO standard language abbreviation form.

LANGUAGE

Specifies the language the current script is written in and invokes the proper scripting engine. The default value is JAVASCRIPT.
* JAVASCRIPT, JSCRIPT The script is written in JScript.
* VBS, VBSCRIPT The script is written in VBScript.

STYLE

Inline style sheet for the tag.

TITLE

The TITLE attribute is for advisory information (unless used with a mailto: attribute). The Title attribute should provide the title of the document whose address is given by the HREF attribute. The contents of the title attribute will be displayed in a tooltip during the mouse moves on the link. Internet Explorer 4.0 (and above) is the only browser to implement this.

TYPE

Defines a button that indicates a default for the ENTER key (with a dark border). The possible values are:
*BUTTON: Command button to be used in a script.
*RESET: When pressed, this button resets the form's fields to their specified initial values. The label to be displayed on the button may be specified just as for the SUBMIT button.
*SUBMIT: Submits the form. The default label is application-specific. If a SUBMIT button is pressed in order to submit the form, and that button has a NAME attribute specified, then that button contributes a name/value pair to the submitted data. Otherwise, a SUBMIT button makes no contribution to the submitted data.

event

Can be one or more of these events:
onafterupdate ;
onbeforeupdate ;
onblur ;
onclick ;
ondblclick ;
ondragstart ;
onfocus ;
onhelp ;
onkeydown ;
onkeypress ;
onkeyup ;
onmousedown ;
onmousemove ;
onmouseout ;
onmouseover ;
onmouseup ;
onresize ;
onrowenter ;
onrowexit ;
onselectstart

 

Version

Currently only supported by Internet Explorer 4.0+.

Example

<BUTTON>
<TABLE BORDER="1">
<TR> <TD>Click</TD><TD>Here</TD> </TR>
<TR> <TD>Try</TD><TD>Again</TD> </TR>
</TABLE>
</BUTTON>

The code will be rendered as:

Remarks

You should not include the SELECT, BUTTON, INPUT, or A within the BUTTON tag.

This element is a block element. Both the start and end tags are required.

Related Topics

INPUT