Does not work in Netscape

Donnie has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings great wise ones!

I have this script that works just great when viewed and run with IE - but with Netscape - the "Submit" button does not appear and so no selection can be made. Can anyone see why the submit button does not show in Netscape - but works just great with IE?

Thanks in advance for any insight. Blessings....

print " <form action=PageSelect.cgi method=post>\n";
print " <center><select name='selected' size=1>\n";
print " <option value='Make_a_Selection'> ---Select---></option>\n";
print " <option value='$page1'> $page1</option>\n";
print " <option value='$page2'> $page2</option>\n";
print " <input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submit'\n";
print " </select>\n";
print " <option selected value=> $IN{'selected'}</option>\n";
print " <p><b>\n";
print " <option selected value=><Font Color=#0000FF>Page Selected: ---
+></Font><Font Color=#FF0000> $in{'selected'}</option></Font></b>\n";
print " </form>
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Re: Does not work in Netscape by joe++ (Friar) on Oct 22, 2002 at 08:02 UTC
...the "Submit" button does not appear and so no selection can be made... Not surprising, as this element is not closed properly (with a ">" character). Hint: you might want to look at CGI.pm. It's should already be on your system, try `perldoc CGI` if you're on Unx. Update:* Also, you start the <submit... element halfway the options list, it should be below or above this list. In my opinion the behaviour of Netscape is more correct than IE in this case ;-) -- Cheers, Joe Do we need a Disclaimer?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Does not work in Netscape by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 22, 2002 at 08:23 UTC
Good catch. perldoc CGI if you're on Unx* FFR. Perldoc works fine on AS (though the HTML versions are infinitely more readable). Cor! Like yer ring! ... HALO dammit! ... 'Ave it yer way! Hal-lo, Mister la-de-da. ... Like yer ring!	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Does not work in Netscape by moodster (Hermit) on Oct 22, 2002 at 08:28 UTC
Also, you're putting the `<input type="submit">` element inside the `<select>` element. I don't think that's legal HTML. Try moving the submit button out of the select (you also have some `<option>` elements that really should be inside the select). Cheers, --Moodster	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Does not work in Netscape by fruiture (Curate) on Oct 22, 2002 at 08:44 UTC
Why should any browser display that crap? This is not HTML, this only looks like it, but it isn't. The IE is not a browser, you cannot assume you have done anything correctly if the IE displays it. http://w3.org/TR/html4 will enlighten you what HTML really is and you'll see that you've made a lot of mistakes in that tiny piece of code (i count at least 6 errors and at least 6 deprecated constructs). Consider using CGI.pm for HTML-output on the fly or use templates. update: The list of mistakes/deprecated things for someone: unquoted attribute values, at least non-numeriocs values should be quoted. "---Select--->" must be "---Select-->" input tag syntax error (closing > is missing) input element at impossible position 2 option elements with broken syntax 2 option elements at impossible position again unencoded > use of FONT element deprecated use of unquoted attributes deprecated B element deprecated unclosed P elements, well, HTML4, but not XHTML ;) -- http://fruiture.de	[reply]
Re: Does not work in Netscape by Donnie (Acolyte) on Oct 22, 2002 at 21:37 UTC
Thank you to all who responded. With your good advice I was able to clean this up and make it work. I am grateful! Blessings to all!	[reply]