Be careful how you name your submit buttons

Last week I was banging my head against the door trying to perform the simple task of getting a button to submit a form using JavaScript. Normally this wouldn’t present a problem and is accomplished quite easily by adding an onclick event to the button which runs the following JavaScript…
document.forms[0].submit();
However both Internet Explorer and Firefox [...]

How to prevent focus jumping to the address bar when tabbing in IE

I had a simple login form, consisting of username and password fields, which when submitted with the incorrect details would select the contents of the username field using the JavaScript select() command and prompt the user to correct their entry, but when pressing tab to jump to the next field, focus would jump to the [...]