Proposal: Default Button on Forms

Paul W. Barber (barbe016@maroon.tc.umn.edu)
Wed, 1 Nov 1995 20:36:55 -5

I would like to suggest that there be a way of indicating a default
Button on a Fill-out Form. The way I understand the current spec is
as follows (from
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/fill-out-forms/overview.html -
Things to Note)
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A "submit" element is necessary in all forms except those
containing only a single INPUT element of type
TEXT (in which case Return in the text entry
area submits the form) or at least one INPUT element
of type IMAGE (in which case a click in the image
submits the form).
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When a form has multiple Text areas, it would be helpful to be able
to indicate a default Button. This could possible by implemented as
such:

<INPUT TYPE="submit" DEFAULT="True" VALUE="Submit">

This would allow the user of the Fill-out Form to simply press the
keyboard Enter to submit the form when it has multiple Text entries.
It would also be useful with multiple Submit Buttons where the HTML
author could decide which is the most common response and indicate it
with the Default tag.
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