Fellow monks,

I've come across an interesting problem with Firefox and CGI scripts.

I've got a script I'm working on that has forms on a couple of pages. No problems with that - Firefox renders the HTML just fine as I would expect it to. The problem comes in when I've got a graphic with a link attached to it Firefox does a lookup and doesn't reference itself. IE will load the next page - assuming that the requisite information has been filled in.

When I have the hyperlink outside the form, both IE and Firefox are showing the submit button's link as being the link on the graphic above.

My questions are:

  1. Why would a link outside the form affect the submit button?
  2. Why is the CGI module showing the link above and not a blank for my submit button?
  3. Is there something that I need to do differently to in calling the submit? Currently I'm doing 
    print $query->submit(-name => "Go to Step 3"),

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    to submit the form.

The odd thing is that Firefox will display the second page when I remove the hyperlink outside the form. Any light anybody can shed on this would be greatly appreciated.

Update: Thanks to ikegami I found a typo in my URL which solved my problem partially. However the URL is still going wrong with the submit button in Firefox.

Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.

In reply to CGI.pm form buttons and Firefox by Popcorn Dave

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