HTML/Middle-click/Security question...

[Madison Kelly]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:02:46PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote
> 
>>   How can I make a click-able search result that sends a POST to the
>> server, works without javascript and supports middle-clicking to
>> open the search result in a new tab?
>>
>>   Currently, with the scheme I have, you can't middle-click on the
>> result at all because it is a form 'submit' button (but looks like
>> normal text). This is really not good, given that middle-clicking
>> on search results is a big sell for tabbed browsers. :)
>>
>>  Any ideas/suggestions/pointers will be *much* appreciated!
> 
>    Can you forget about buttons, and emulate Google?  I think it's
> "dynamic HTML", i.e. adding 'a href="' in front of the URL, and closing
> it after the URL.  A bit more work, but middle-clickable.

I'll have to look at the source of a Google search result to see how 
they did it. I've got pressious little experience with DHTML, maybe it's 
time to look into it? :)

Madi

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