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Multiple submit buttons in an HTML form

I have web form with multiple submit buttons. To determine which button was pressed, each has a different name, like so:

<input type="submit" name="foo" value="Foo Foo">

On the form there are also normal links that act as submit buttons, like so:

<a href="" onclick="parentNode.submit();return false;">
Bar
</a>

How do I also distinguish between the links being used as submit buttons?

I am not sure if this is relevant:
Here is the start of the form

<form action="foobar" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

I am using Flask (a micro-framework based on Werkzeug) which uses Python (2.6 in this case).

Answer 1

My first question would be to ask if you need that many distinct ways to submit the same form? This sounds like your design should be changed up to make it more simplistic for the user, which will in turn solve your issue.

If you absolutely HAVE to have all the different submit buttons/links and need to know which one was pressed, use something like:

<input type="hidden" id="submitClicked" />
<input type="submit" onclick="javascript:document.getElementById('submitClicked').value='linkName';return true;" id="linkName">Submit</input>

NOTE: I didn’t test this code, it was just off the top of my head, and thus some modification may be needed.