Passing url variable

Question

My web page is in two panels. "A" lists company names. "B"
show the details in an Accordian panel (address, phone etc) when a
name in "A" is clicked. To update the the file, a button "Update
Data" opens a php dynamic form to update record with an "id" of
{id}. On submission of the form, we go back to the selected row
{ds_RowID}.
PROBLEM: This all works in Safari and Firefox, but on a
Windows box the "Update Data" button has no effect. Is there a URL
encode function or something that I am missing?
Test-Wesite: I can send privately the online example.
<a href="updtform.php?id={id}&amp;row={ds_RowID}">
<input name="butt_updt" type="button" value="Update Data"
/></a>

Answer 1

The problem is that in some browsers like IE, the button
click does not propagate upward past the button to the link.
Instead of wrapping your buttons with a link, why not use an
onclick handler? Instead of this:
<a href="updtform.php?id={id}&amp;row={ds_RowID}">
<input name="butt_updt" type="button" value="Update Data"
/>
</a>
Do this:
<input name="butt_updt" type="button" value="Update Data"
onclick="window.location='updtform.php?id={id}&amp;row={ds_RowID}';"
/>
--== Kin ==--