Buttons

[j jay]

I have a string Input tag for a search function. By default, I gat a
button with "Submit Query" on it. But what if I want a button with
"Search" or just "submit" on it? What if I want a smaller button with
an arrow head or something else on it, How do I get those?

How do I get a button for "Login" or "Refresh" or "Run Applet"?

Also, I am doing my HTML coding using composer on a Linux desktop
running Mozella. I have it on a floppy diskette, but when I move to
Windows machine running Internet Explorer or Navigator I cannot get
Word or WordPad to read it. Any suggestions?

Regards

[Peter Foti]

Re: Buttons

"j jay" <news009@hotmai l.com> wrote in message
news:91a54d5d.0 310130703.137be 86d@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> I have a string Input tag for a search function. By default, I gat a
> button with "Submit Query" on it. But what if I want a button with
> "Search" or just "submit" on it? What if I want a smaller button with
> an arrow head or something else on it, How do I get those?[/color]

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Search">

In this example, the text "Search" will be displayed on the button.

If you want a button with an arrow head, you could do something like this:

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Search --&gt;">

Otherwise, you will need to use <input type="image">. See the HTML spec for
more:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.4

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>
> How do I get a button for "Login" or "Refresh" or "Run Applet"?[/color]

Not sure what you mean. Are talking about buttons in a Java Applet?
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>
> Also, I am doing my HTML coding using composer on a Linux desktop
> running Mozella. I have it on a floppy diskette, but when I move to
> Windows machine running Internet Explorer or Navigator I cannot get
> Word or WordPad to read it. Any suggestions?[/color]

Yeah, don't use Linux. ;) I'm just kidding. The reason is because Linux
and Windows have different file systems. If you have any way to email the
file, that would work. Or if you can share it on a network, you could access
it from both PCs. Or you could FTP the file. But you're not going to be
able to use a diskette to pass the file between Linux and Windows.

Regards,
Peter Foti

[Chris Morris]

Re: Buttons

"Peter Foti" <peterf@systoli cnetworks.com> writes:[color=blue]
> it from both PCs. Or you could FTP the file. But you're not going to be
> able to use a diskette to pass the file between Linux and Windows.[/color]

Um, I do that all the time. Linux has support for the 'vfat'
filesystem, which lets it read and write floppies for Windows. Just
remember to mount the floppy drive with that fs type and you'll be
fine.

--
Chris

[Peter Foti]

Re: Buttons

"Chris Morris" <c.i.morris@dur ham.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:874qyd2lcz .fsf@dinopsis.d ur.ac.uk...[color=blue]
> "Peter Foti" <peterf@systoli cnetworks.com> writes:[color=green]
> > it from both PCs. Or you could FTP the file. But you're not going to[/color][/color]
be[color=blue][color=green]
> > able to use a diskette to pass the file between Linux and Windows.[/color]
>
> Um, I do that all the time. Linux has support for the 'vfat'
> filesystem, which lets it read and write floppies for Windows. Just
> remember to mount the floppy drive with that fs type and you'll be
> fine.[/color]

I stand corrected. :)

-Peter

[Alan J. Flavell]

Re: Buttons

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Chris Morris wrote:
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> Um, I do that all the time. Linux has support for the 'vfat'
> filesystem, which lets it read and write floppies for Windows.[/color]

Yup, agreed.
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> Just remember to mount the floppy drive with that fs type and
> you'll be fine.[/color]

I have the impression that "mount" works that out for itself. That's
assuming the floppy was already formatted by Windoze...

It might depend on this magic in /etc/fstab,

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,ku dzu 0 0

but I think that's standard in linux.


That's at the file system level. Don't forget there are also
discrepancies at the text-format level, e.g newline representation
and DOS end-of-file conventions. Some software is tolerant of both
conventions, whereas other software gets upset. YMMV.