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<button> element not safe in forms in IE #34

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jw35 opened this issue Feb 21, 2013 · 0 comments
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<button> element not safe in forms in IE #34

jw35 opened this issue Feb 21, 2013 · 0 comments
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jw35 commented Feb 21, 2013

The forms example in the style guide:

http://www.websupport.cam.ac.uk/Project-Light/components/core-elements/form-elements.html

suggests the use of tags rather than <input type="submit"..> in forms. It turns out that IE (especially in compatibility mode) handles s in forms badly. See for example http://www.peterbe.com/plog/button-tag-in-IE

It might be worth at least providing a warning, or converting the examples to use . Empirically the style sheets provide equivalent styling for

s and the relevant types of .

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