Question

I have code that my group developed:

<button id="createLink" class="blue" type="button" title="Create Text"></button>

Can someone give me some advice on this. My groupmates are specifying the wording type=”button”. If this already is a button then why is it needed?

Answer 1

By default, a <button> element is type="submit", not type="button".

See the specification:

Keyword	State	Brief description
submit	Submit Button	Submits the form.
reset	Reset Button	Resets the form.
button	Button	Does nothing.

The missing value default and invalid value default are the
Submit Button state.

If the type attribute is in the Submit Button state, the element is
specifically a submit button.

… or the previous specification:

type = submit|button|reset [CI]
This attribute declares the type of
the button. Possible values:
submit: Creates a submit button. This is
the default value.
reset: Creates a reset button.
button: Creates a
push button.