Using a link(text) for the Submit Button

I would like to know how to use a link (text) for the submit button in a form. . Thanks

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thanks
Junior

You can't. Consider using GET method instead of POST method.

you can.

try following codes

<script>
function go_submit( form )
{
form.submit() ;
}
</script>
<form name=f method=post action=test.html>
</form>
<a href=javascript:go_submit(document.f)>submit</a>

Has anybody used this? Does it work? Is there a non-javascript way to use a text link in a form using post? I want to make a text link that bots won't follow at all.

Nope.

Check out Fighting Spam with CSS

Did you really have to post in an 8 year old thread?

I'm not trying to fight spam. I just want to make a text link to allow users to report an invalid post without having the search engines crawl the link and report all my posts as invalid.

This will be helpful, though. I will probably use this in my script to prevent spam. I have not got any yet, but it will probably only be a matter of time until I do. Thanks for the link to this.

Ah. Then you need to look into using a robots.txt file and the rel="nofollow" attribute.

That makes sense. I could put a list of all the files for robots not to crawl. That would eliminate the search engines. That does not stop the bots that don't check the robots.txt file first. Good enough, I guess.

rel="nofollow" doesn't prevent the bots from crawling through the link. It only prevents the search engines from counting it in its analysis of the pages' link popularity.