HTML Submit-button: Different value / button-text?

Question

I\'d like to create an HTML form submit button with the value \'add tag\', however, the web page is in Swedish, so I\'d like to have a different bu

Answer 1

If you handle "adding tag" via JScript:

<form ...>
<button onclick="...">any text you want</button>
</form>

Or above if handle via page reload

Answer 2

There are plenty of answers here explaining what you could do (I use the different field name one) but the simple (and as-yet unstated) answer to your question is 'no' - you can't have a different text and value using just HTML.

Answer 3

It's possible using the button element.

<button name="name" value="value" type="submit">Sök</button>

From the W3C page on button:

Buttons created with the BUTTON element function just like buttons created with the INPUT element, but they offer richer rendering possibilities: the BUTTON element may have content.

Answer 4

I don't know if I got you right, but, as I understand, you could use an additional hidden field with the value "add tag" and let the button have the desired text.

Answer 5

Following the @greg0ire suggestion in comments:

<input type="submit" name="add_tag" value="Lägg till tag" />

In your server side, you'll do something like:

if (request.getParameter("add_tag") != null)
    tags.addTag( /*...*/ );

(Since I don't know that language (java?), there may be syntax errors.)

I would prefer the <button> solution, but it doesn't work as expected on IE < 9.