WHY DO THE BUTTONS SUCK?

adpboss · #1 12-16-2004, 05:28 PM

I am so sick of the X-cart buttons that you cannot tab to. You cannot hit <ENTER> at the end of a text field and have it submit.

It is UN-intuitive, STUPID and totally retarded.

Has anyone figured out how to make their buttons NOT crap in X-Cart?

nfc5382 · #2 12-16-2004, 05:42 PM

Good point. You won't believe how many times I wish Enter would submit!

kpayne · #3 12-16-2004, 05:50 PM

I wonder if the enter key is just basically aliased to the submit button and it doesn't work because there is no submit button. I wonder if it's something as stupidly simple as putting a submit button in a hidden div ...

adpboss · #4 12-16-2004, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by kpayne

I wonder if the enter key is just basically aliased to the submit button and it doesn't work because there is no submit button. I wonder if it's something as stupidly simple as putting a submit button in a hidden div ...

Speak English or suffer the consequences knave!

elomibao · #5 12-16-2004, 05:59 PM

Not only that, is that some browsers don't actually work on X-Cart because the submit button has Javascript on it to check for invalid inputs. Why not make the check in PHP after submission instead? I know users should upgrade their browsers but you can't tell every single client to upgrade because your site can't support them.

kpayne · #6 12-16-2004, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by adpboss

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Originally Posted by kpayne

I wonder if the enter key is just basically aliased to the submit button and it doesn't work because there is no submit button. I wonder if it's something as stupidly simple as putting a submit button in a hidden div ...

Speak English or suffer the consequences knave!

What I mean is basically this: Can you put the following code in a form and then have the ability to hit enter to submit the form?

Code:

<div style="display: none;"><input type="submit" value="submit"></div>

I'm too lazy to test it myself. But from what I've seen, when you hit <enter> the browser just finds the first submit button on the page and clicks it for you.

adpboss · #7 12-16-2004, 06:14 PM

Damn Kurt, I wanted to rant, and now you are making work for me. LOL.

This doesn't solve the tab issue though. I get net saavy customers complain all the time.

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How come I can't tab to the submit button?

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How come pressing enter doesn't work?

kpayne · #8 12-16-2004, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by adpboss

Damn Kurt, I wanted to rant, and now you are making work for me. LOL.

Well in that case I'll jump in there with you. The buttons are the worst part about the x-cart UI, they're implemented REALLY stupidly in my opinion because if you want to make them all BUTTONS instead of little table text boxes with CSS problems in IE (ever get those flickering buttons? How cheap does that look!) you have to change EVERY BLOODY file that has a button in it because they're all surrounded by anchor tags.

I've just given up, honestly.