Image submit button using CGI.pm shortcut method 1

[rdyoll]

Hi, just wondering if there is a solution for using an image for a submit button using the HTML shortcut. I've tried it using a background image, but not the way you can do it using a regular image and regular syntax:
<input type=&quot;image&quot; src=&quot;the_image.gif&quot;>,

but, this is the only way I could come up with using the CGI.pm shortcut method...

print $q->submit({ -name => 'the_name',
-value => '',
-style => 'background-image:url(the_image.gif);width:100px;height:24px' });

...is there another way...?

Thanks

 

[philote]

Is this what you're looking for?

print $q->image_button(-name=>'the_name',
                              -src=>'the_image.gif',
                              -align=>'MIDDLE');

From:

http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.04/CGI.pm#CREATING_A_CLICKABLE_IMAGE_BUTTON

 

[rdyoll]

...well, I saw that in CGI.pm, but really I was looking for a submit button(IS THIS EQUIVALENT TO A SUBMIT?)...it does &quot;seem&quot; to submit...

 

[philote]

I think it creates a

<input type=&quot;submit>

tag, which according to

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#input-control-types

is a &quot;graphical submit button&quot;. But try it out and see if it works.

If for some reason it doesn't work, you could always submit using javascript in the onClick event.

 

[rdyoll]

...philote, yes, it works fine...I can't believe I was confused... I just had it in my head it needed to be a submit...thanks for the links...

...a star for you for explaining what I knew, but it was just not sinking in...hehe...