Thanks jeffa. Suppose I add a text field to the form: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -T

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(:standard);

print header, start_html;
print ("Submitted:", param(), hr) if param();
print start_form, 
    textfield('text1'), br,
    submit('button1'), submit('button2'),
    end_form, end_html
;

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Now I need to enter some value into it and press 'Enter'. That way I will get 'button1' in param() - and I need 'button2' instead. I suppose it is due the fact that button1 has tabindex lower than button2... Is there a way to specify tabindex?

By the way, when I pressed 'reply' I saw a button at the top of the screen - looks like my question title was parsed as HTML.

--dda

In reply to Re: (jeffa) Re: <input type="button"> does not generate parameter=>value pair by dda
in thread <input type="button"> does not generate parameter=>value pair by dda

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