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Re: <input type="submit"> vs <button> element

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From: Mallory
Date: Dec 21, 2016 2:38PM

With regards to older technologies, button would still work, however
older
IE had the default button type not as submit or wouldn't actually submit
a form but instead the text inside the button (as if it were an input
with
a value).
Using the input type=submit is safer if you've got real old IE to worry
about.

It shouldn't be flagged as an a11y problem, but a known-legacy-UA
problem.

_mallory

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016, at 05:30 PM, Angela French wrote:
> I think what my vendor (Siteimprove) was trying to tell me was that old
> technologies wouldn't recognize the <button> element, thus one should go
> with <input>
>
> Angela French
>
>