Re: Easiest question ever posted?

[James Perkins <jrperkinsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I wouldn't use the center tag. It was deprecated in HTML 4.01 and is not
supported in XHTML 1.0. Definitely go the CSS approach. It's a little
tougher to wrap you head around at first, but it makes it MUCH better to
deal with later.

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James R. Perkins
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 07:23, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here's a way to do it:
>
> <center>
> <form action="accepted.html">
> <input type="button" value="Thing One" onclick="self.close()"></input>
> <input type="button" value="Thing Two" name="B2"></input>
> </form>
> </center>
>
> You can use the center tag to center your buttons. No need for CSS
> unless you really want to use it.
>
> If you want the second button to do something, like take you to another
> page, you should put it inside a form. The action of the form says which
> page to open (or server-side script to run) when the user clicks the
> button.
>
> If you want to know more, check out the W3Schools tutorials on HTML and
> CSS. They are great references to get started:
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
> http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
>
> Kelly
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Tom Deskevich
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 8:59 AM
> To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: [WEB400] Easiest question ever posted?
>
> All I want to do is put 2 buttons on the bottom of an html page and have
> them centered, and also have them do the action that I request. After
> hours
> of reading and goggling I found that using absolute positioning was the
> way
> to go. But I cannot get that to work. I tried putting the buttons inside
> of
> a form, and then outside of a form. Here is the current version, with no
> positioning specified, outside of a form.
>
>  <p>
>  <input type="button" value="CANCEL REGISTRATION AND RETURN" name="B1"
> onsubmit=window.close()> (does not close the window)
>  <input type="button" value="I AGREE WITH THE ABOVE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
> -
> SUBMIT" name="B2"></p>
>
> I would like to have some of my natural color left in my hair before I
> turn
> 50 next month. Please help.
>
> BTW, if you want your button to play music, spin and dance, you can find
> tons of help out there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Deskevich
>
>
>
>
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