[Javascript] IE/win click detection, not on text

[dlovering at gazos.com (dlovering@xxxxxxxxx)]

I frequently build cross-platform applications which require "button"
functionality.  Give all the variability between NS, IE, and the other 17
flavors of browser out there with respect to buttons, I basicly gave up.

The solution I favor is to use an image box (<img>), insert the 
"onclick" event
handlers, labels, border-color, and background (which can be a picture), and
hey presto!  A cross-platform button without any nasty baggage.  Looks great,
infinitely tweakable, and doesn't have funky "radius-of-curvature" issues at
the corners.  Besides, I gather from the W3C bulletins that "button" is
deprecated.

Try it, you'll like it.

-- Dave Lovering

Quoting Mike Dougherty <mdougherty@xxxxxxx>:

> I'm having a click problem on buttons - it seems like you have to 
> click on the button label.  If (as my boss does repeatedly) you click 
> on the border/edge surrounding the text, that the focus does not jump 
> to the button and successive clicks [including those on the label 
> themselves] does not fire the click event.  The 'fix' is to click a 
> different control to accept focus again, and be more careful about 
> clicking the label on the button.
>
> I will be spending more time researching this phenomenon, unless 
> someone can explain what is happening/why and how to fix it.
>
>
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:40:14 -0400
>  Roger Roelofs <rer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks for the suggestion about setting the span widths.  I have set 
>>  the spans to 'display: block; in the test case available at 
>> <http:// zeus.datacompusa.com/~rer/ietest/>, but it doesn't help 
>> because the  event still doesn't fire until the mouse touches the 
>> text (except for  the first row in the table).
>>
>> Any other thoughts?
>>
>>
>> Roger
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