Hello Monks,

I have a webpage created using cgi which along with many other HTML elements, has one Submit button (button1) and another button of type button (button2). This button2 I want to use to run a DB query when it is clicked.

Though I can catch the event when submit button is clicked, I am NOT able to catch the event when the button2 is clicked. Specific to the sample code below, I tried using $query->param('resetButton/button/Reset') but it gets nothing in return and the variable I am using to store the value (my $buttonStatus) is always blank.

Can you please help me here by suggesting I way to catch the event when the button2 is clicked.

I have written a small test code (given below) just to demonstrate what I am trying do:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI qw/:standard/;

my $query = new CGI;
print $query->header;

my $formStatus = $query->param('submitButton');
my $buttonStatus = $query->param('resetButton');
print "Value of \$formStatus is: $formStatus". localtime()."\n";
print "Value of \$buttonStatus is: $buttonStatus". localtime()."\n";

print "<html>\n";
    print "<head>\n";
    print "</head>\n";
print "<body>\n";
    print "<form id=\"form1\" method=\"post\">\n";
    print "<input type=\"submit\" name=\"submitButton\" value=\"Submit
+\" id=\"button1\"/>\n";
    print"<button type=\"button\" name=\"resetButton\" onclick=\"reset
+tingFunction()\" id=\"button2\">Reset</button>\n";
    print "</form>\n";
print "</body>\n";
print "</html>\n";

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What I want is to be able to determine when button2 is clicked.

In reply to [Solved]:How to catch event when button (which is NOT submit button) is clicked. by Perl300

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