Resolved prevent submit button from submitting and execute onclick action instead

[VIPStephan]

Would any of you kind people please visit http://www.primacom.net/~k6531190/ml/adminCodeEdit.html, click on “add media” and then click “cancel” using Internet Explorer or Opera and compare it to Firefox or Safari, please?

The general issue is that I have several submit buttons that perform different tasks and I want to add dynamic functionality so that clicking a certain submit button won’t submit the form right away but execute an onclick action instead. I haven’t managed to get that working without wrapping another element around the button(s) and executing the onclick action on these elements instead. And then, more specifically, in the overlay the click of the cancel button does close it alright in Firefox and Safari but it still submits the form in IE and Opera. What do I have to do to prevent this from happening? Will I have to replace the inputs completely?

The respective JavaScript can be found in http://www.primacom.net/~k6531190/ml/js/functions.js starting in the second half of the document.

[VIPStephan]

Ah well, I ended up replacing the <input type="submit"> with an <input type="button"> which does nothing by default and allowed to add an onclick event without problems.

Sometimes things can be so simple.