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Re: On click button in php

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Arno Welzel wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn, 2013-02-19 11:23:
>> Arno Welzel wrote:
>>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn, 2013-02-17 21:09:
>>>> Arno Welzel wrote:
>>>>> nag, 2013-02-16 03:15:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> <a href="#"><input type="button" onclick="<a href='details.php?$id='
>>>>>>> </a>" value="submit" style="margin-left:4.0em;"></a>
>>> [...]
>>>>>> but when I click the button (the submit button) nothing is happening.
>>>>> Of course not. onClick is an event handler and you have to use
>>>>> JavaScript there.
>>>> “onclick” is an event-handler attribute (for the “click” event of the
>>>> DOM), and unless the HTML version is HTML5, one can use any scripting
>>>> language in its value.  ECMAScript-based scripting languages like
>>>> JavaScript are best supported, though.
>>>>
>>>> See also: <http://PointedEars.de/es-matrix>
>>>
>>> Theoretically - yes. In the real world ECMAScript-based scripting
>>> languages like JavaScript are the only useful choice, since none of the
>>> current browsers except Internet Explorer support anything else out of
>>> the box.
>> 
>> That is what I said.
> 
> To make it more clear: ECMAScript-based languages like JavaScript are
> not only the "best supported" ones - they are the ONLY possibility in
> the real world

You are mistaken.  Companies are using that fact to their advantage.

> and it does not matter if is theoretically possible to specify another
> language for the event-handler and if there is one(!) known browser to
> support VBScript instead of JScript.

It is still possible.  A “real world” argument is, of course, a common 
fallacy.


PointedEars
-- 
> If you get a bunch of authors […] that state the same "best practices"
> in any programming language, then you can bet who is wrong or right...
Not with javascript. Nonsense propagates like wildfire in this field.
  -- Richard Cornford, comp.lang.javascript, 2011-11-14

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On click button in php nag <visitnag@gmail.com> - 2013-02-15 18:15 -0800
  Re: On click button in php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-02-15 21:48 -0500
  Re: On click button in php Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2013-02-16 15:29 +1100
    Re: On click button in php nag <visitnag@gmail.com> - 2013-02-16 05:20 -0800
  Re: On click button in php Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-02-17 08:53 +0100
    Re: On click button in php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-17 21:09 +0100
      Re: On click button in php Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-02-19 11:18 +0100
        Re: On click button in php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-19 11:23 +0100
          Re: On click button in php Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-02-19 11:51 +0100
            Re: On click button in php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-19 11:58 +0100
              Re: On click button in php Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2013-02-19 12:07 +0000
              Re: On click button in php Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-02-20 11:00 +0100
            Re: On click button in php The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-02-19 12:13 +0000
              Re: On click button in php Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-02-20 11:01 +0100
                Re: On click button in php The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-02-20 13:48 +0000

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