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Submit button

A submit button is an element in HTML that can be used to submit a <form>. The native submit button elements are:

  • <button> (its default type is "submit")
  • <input type="submit">[](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/input/submit)
  • <input type="image">[](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/input/image)

In addition to submitting a form, a submit button can affect the form's behavior and what data is sent.

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Overriding the form's behavior

Submit buttons can override the form's submission behavior through various attributes:

  • formaction[](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/button#formaction): Override the action attribute of the form.
  • formenctype[](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/button#formenctype): Override the enctype attribute of the form.
  • formmethod[](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/button#formmethod): Override the method attribute of the form.
  • formnovalidate[](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/button#formnovalidate): Override the novalidate attribute of the form.
  • formtarget[](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/button#formtarget): Override the target attribute of the form.

Form data entries

If the submit button is a <button> or <input type="submit">[](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/input/submit) and has a name attribute, the form data set will include an entry for its name and value. If the submit button is an <input type="image">[](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/input/image), the form data set will include entries for the X and Y coordinates that the user clicked on (e.g., x=100&y=200 or buttonName.x=123&buttonName.y=234).

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