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In Html why does clicking on regular button within form action the form

I have a webpage with three buttons, two of the buttons action the form submitting data to the server, it then sends back the appropriate page.
The third button is meant to just open a new webpage in a new tab, the current page does not need to be reloaded so this button is just a button element with some onclick() code, its is not part of an input element
The trouble is that when I click on the third button it actions the form action the form even though its not an input type, why does it do this ?
<main>
<form action="/license.process" name="process" id="process" method="post">
<label>
Please enter your license information as provided in your license email
</label>
<table>
<tr>
<td><label title="Email">Email</label></td><td><input type="text" name="licenseEmail" value="paultaylor#jthink.net" class="licenseinputfield"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label title="License Key 1">
License Key 1
</label>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="licenseKey1" value="50302c02147f23ed809a8f2579338121a2b1594f967bb18" class="licenseinputfield">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label title="License Key 2">
License Key 2
</label>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="licenseKey2" value="0ff02146cd1777d7e0890e659b10218761869212d7b0d60" class="licenseinputfield">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="submit" name="cancel" value="Cancel">
<input type="submit" name="save" value="Save">
<button onclick="window.open('http://www.jthink.net/songkong/buy.jsp','_blank');">
Get License
</button>
</form>
</main>
I can make it work properly by moving this third button outside of the form. But then I get formatting problem because button is shown on next line, regardless I want to understand why having the butto within the form triggers the form.

The default type of a <button> is submit.
If you want it to be type=button then you have to say so explicitly.

You need to add the type="button" attribute to prevent the form from being submitted.
I'm not entirely sure why but came across this last week.

returning a validation below a text box

The following html code includes a part used to enter time and is validated calling the relevant function using onblur() but when the javascript function fires the text box containing the time jumps to the left corner! how can i stop this?
<td height="50" rowspan="2">
<span class="headingbox">Expected Time &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp </span>
<span style="width:100%;text-align:center;">
<input type="time" id=time autofocus name=DPTime onblur="return test()" onfocusout="hid('timeerror2');" onfocus="show('timeerror2');" min="09:00:00" max="22:00:00" />
<span class="poperror" id="timeerror2"> Pharmacy is opened from 9AM to 10PM </span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td><br> <label id=check align=right></label></td>
</tr>
Here when the test() function is called a relevant value is displayed in the label with id=check! At that point the time box jups to the left side! how to prevent this?

Just for reference , not sure if these are affecting the result or not:
1. you have rowspan="2" but you have 3 span tag there
2. your 2nd span tag did not have the close tag < / span >

Making HTML elements editable after a click of a button and save on the database

I've researched about this for a while now but I haven't really gotten my head wrapped around it as an amateur in design. How do make my following markup editable after after the user clicks on the 'Edit' button I had created. So here it is:
<div class='wrapper'>
<div class='topinfobar'>
<p>Contact Info</p>
</div>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr><td><p class='leftspacing'>Cellphone Numbers</p></td><td><p>072 215 3372</p></td>
<tr><td><p class='leftspacing'>Phone Numbers</p></td><td><p>011 310 9967</p></td>
<tr><td><p class='leftspacing'>email address</p></td><td><p>s.nyama9#gmail.com</p></td>
</tbody>
</table>
<button>Change</button>
</div>
I wanna be able to change only the Cellphone Numbers etc. by just pressing the Edit button I had created. I'm using php, I just did that markup for design purposes. And I want the button to change from 'Change' to 'Done' while the user is still editing their details. So, the info is only readable before you click on the Edit button and it changes to 'Done' after the user had clicked it

You can put those values in inputs but it's look like regular content using readonly attribute and css, and just toggle class and the attribute.
$('#edit').click(function(){
$('#form').toggleClass('view');
$('input').each(function(){
var inp = $(this);
if (inp.attr('readonly')) {
inp.removeAttr('readonly');
}
else {
inp.attr('readonly', 'readonly');
}
});
});
.view input {
border:0;
background:0;
outline:none !important;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class='topinfobar'>
<p>Contact Info</p>
</div>
<table id="form" class="view">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<p class='leftspacing'>Cellphone Numbers</p>
</td>
<td>
<p><input type="text" value="072 215 3372" readonly/></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p class='leftspacing'>Phone Numbers</p>
</td>
<td>
<p><input type="text" value="011 310 9967" readonly/></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p class='leftspacing'>email address</p>
</td>
<td>
<p><input type="email" value="s.nyama9#gmail.com" readonly/></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<button id="edit">Change</button>

There are a number of different ways you can do this, but the "classical" way would be to put the values in <input/> tags with IDs that are styled to be transparent. Wrap the whole table in a form, then use JavaScript when the user clicks the button to remove a disabled property from each of the input fields and change the button label. The second click of the button would then be validation and/or a form submit. The easiest way to keep track of which is the first and second click would be to compare text, but you might want to just set a variable on the element instead. Try here for a good starting point on pure-Javascript form submission or here for JQuery. This is a Stack-Overflow question about making input fields transparent.

Jquery get different input hidden value to a link

I making a context menu and it almost done, just left this problem for me, but i have no idea to do this:
This is the JS Fiddle
Get different value from input hidden to a single link, because I want to pass it into a controller action
<table>
<tr>
<td class="element">im here
<input type="hidden" id="theid" name="theid" value="1"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="element">im there
<input type="hidden" id="theid" name="theid" value="2"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="element">im where
<input type="hidden" id="theid" name="theid" value="3"/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div type="context" class="menu"> // link
<label class="menuitem">Cancel this app</label>
</div>
I want to pass the value to theid , for example when right click im here the link should get the hidden value = 1 and so on, any suggestion to do that ? Thanks

The mouse event object contains the target you were clicking on. So you can access that, pass it to jQuery and do whatever you want with it, eg. accessing the ID of the input.
$(e.target).find('input').attr('id');
And as the other commentators, I'm hoping that your IDs are different ;)
Edit: I re-read your question, you just want the value. So you don't need the ID theid in your markup overall (for this usecase). Getting the value from the clicked element:
$(e.target).find('input').val();
And working, see the alert(): See this jsfiddle

Show/hide div(check box) dynamically using Javascript/jQuery

I created a popup box using jQuery. The popup box contains a button named submit.
1.In a table <td>, there are two buttons "Add the name" and "Add from list". When the user clicks "Add the name", a popup box will open and get the input from the user (namely text data).
2.After entering the text data in the popup box, they should press the submit button. On clicking submit, the input text entered by the user is displayed in a <div id="dynamic"></div> in a <td>. (See HTML below).
3.In the HTML below, the second <tr>: in a separate I put some text, i.first Aid notes with a check box ii.sent to sick bay with a check box iii.ambulance with a checkbox.
4.When the user clicks the submit button, the text data is displayed in the name <td> cell (See HTML below). But what I want is at the same time the above mentioned check box with label should bind in their respective <td>s in a table dynamically (See HTML below, I placed it in individual <td> (i.e when the user clicks the submit button the check box also should display, this should happen at every click on submit).
I don't know how to perform using Javascript or jQuery. Can any one please come up with code.
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="rounded_border">
<tr>
<td colspan="4"><p><em>Please record the name</em></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Involved</strong></td>
<td><button>Add a name</button></td>
<td><p align=center>or</p></td>
<td>Add from list</td>
</tr>
<tr id="list" class="ir-shade"><div id="dynamic">
<td><span class="delete_icon">x</span>Atil</td>
<td>
<input id="firstaid" onclick="addtreatment();" type="checkbox"/>
FirstAid needed
</td>
<td>
<input class="sickbay" onclick="addtreatment();" type="checkbox"/>
Sent to Sick bay
</td>
<td>
<input class="ambulance" onclick="addtreatment();" type="checkbox"/>
Ambulance
</td>
</div>
</tr>
</table>
sample fiddle
This is what i required as ouptup,but it is displayed as in a single <td>,i want it to be happen that eack check box and their respective label in individual <td>.
How to do with jquery/javascript. Thanks.

That would be in your 'addtreatment' function, what code do you currently have there?