[OT] (X)HTML question about POST

Chris F.A. Johnson c.f.a.johnson-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Fri Mar 19 02:54:52 UTC 2004


On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Walter Dnes wrote:

>   I wanted to bring my home page from XHTML 1.0 to 1.1.  I thought that
> I had discovered a new-and-improved super-duper method that allowed me
> to set up buttons that could be clicked, and the menu would appear to
> float at the top of the page, and no frames or javascript.  It worked on
> my home machine, and validated on http://validator.w3.org.
>
>   The problem is that it doesn't work in the real world (a virtual
> domain at www.clss.net).  The beta page
> is at http://www.waltdnes.org/beta/index.html
>
>   In case you're wondering, each table cell contains a dummy form, with
> nothing to fill out.  Clicking the button invokes a POST to the
> appropriate *.html file.  Like I said, it works at home but not in the
> real world.  Any hints on how to get it working without (bleagh)
> javascript?

    What's not working?

    If the action in the forms pointed to a real CGI script, it should
    work.

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